Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Europe, 45 small Hungarian papers were suppressed within the last month, and new laws limited the number of Jews in newspaper jobs. Similar laws are in effect in what is left of Czechoslovakia. In Bulgaria it was announced that no new newspaper can start without permission of a special new Ministry. Lithuania signed a press accord agreeing that the newspapers of each nation will henceforth be "devoid of unfriendly tendencies...
...fetch them the Colorado at a cost of $200,000,000. In charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work to 45,000 men, fun and head aches to no less than 300 engineers. The last tunnel was holed through by blasting last month. Expectations were At the rubble would be cleared by next week, that by next summer Colorado River water would start pouring into Cajalco Reservoir, thence to Los Angeles and twelve other thirsty California towns...
Among Hollywood celebrities, a special niche is reserved for phantom actresses- young women who become internationally celebrated as movie stars without appearing on the screen. In this niche, Paulette Goddard's place is secure. Until last month, she had appeared in only two pictures. In the first, The Kid from Spain, she was a chorus girl. In the second, Modern Times, she did not talk. Since Modern Times she has maintained an apparently impregnable position in U. S. headlines, first as the centre of the controversy about whether or not she was married to Charlie Chaplin, then...
...Last month lion-jawed Pianist Moriz Rosenthal celebrated the soth anniversary of his U. S. debut by playing a special gold-lacquered piano in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME, Nov. 21). Forgotten at the time by most Manhattan concertgoers was the fact that Pianist Rosenthal's U. S. debut in 1888 was not a one-man show. Billed as assisting artist on that program was another U. S. debutant: a self-effacing, dark-eyed, 13-year-old Viennese violinist named Fritz Kreisler. In their excitement over Pianist Rosenthal's galloping fingers, the Manhattan critics nearly forgot...
...Mission, most vigorous evangelistic onslaught on college youth in a generation, brought Dr. Jones and his dynamic, intensely personal message to a dozen State universities. Last week, looking weary from his labors, he sailed for Europe. Thence he will make a four-day airplane dash to Madras, where this month meets an international missionary conference of high import...