Word: marche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among significant points brought out in supplementary statistical tables was the fact that only eight members of the class of 1939 are now on the waiting list. According to reasonable predictions based on the figures for 1937 and 1938, the surplus in residence by next March should...
Last year, President Roosevelt was able to send New-Dealish Judge John Biggs Jr., 41, to join the "Four Old Men," as they impishly called themselves (TIME, March 15, 1937). Last week when three of the four ancients retired, their eldest, Judge Joseph Buffmgton, snowy-domed and bright-eyed at 82, drew himself up to make a speech...
Total Italian casualties in Spain were modestly placed by the Fascist press at 2,023 killed, 6,996 wounded, 359 captured by Leftists. More indicative of Dictator Mussolini's power was his new interpretation of what happened in the famed Guadalajara battle of March 1937, between Italians and Spanish Leftists. Described by U. S. and British newshawks on the scene as a panicky rout for the Italians, it now appears in Italy's press as one of the country's five "great victories" of the Spanish Civil...
...time there was a rumor that Japan had decided not to accept games, and Finland was prominently mentioned as the foremost candidate for the games. This rumor was controverted, however, by the action of the meeting in March in Cairo, Egypt, which defintely voted that the games should take place in Japan the year after next...
Thus copper, an excellent gauge of business pressure, showed foreign industry still moving under good steam. But in the U. S. pressure remained low. The latest Federal Reserve index of industrial production (for April) stood at 17, down two points from March. Statisticians guessed that by last week it had dropped another point or two. Other metals besides copper reflected this trend: Scrap steel and tin were off slightly for the week, lead was down to 4? a pound from...