Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's wooing Negro votes far below the Mason-Dixon line. Moreover, for the first time in years, South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, who walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia when a Negro pastor was called on to pray, last month managed to put some life into his traditional campaign plank: White Supremacy...
...considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge of the brewery to revitalize it. During his regime Prima sales dropped from 30,000 bbl. to 5,000 bbl. per month. Prima sued the banks and won. to the tune of the judge's savage remarks about banking practices...
...State confronted him with this boast, last week warned that if he did not kick in $25,200 it would repeat last month's Whiddon confiscation-in which 20 Whiddon Cash Stores, owing $43,000 in back chain-store taxes, were seized by the State and sold at auction...
Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
...over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical and Radio Engineering. Under President Woodruff's leadership, $18,000 was appropriated by the League for the new station, WIAW (Founder Maxim...