Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Ford Motor Co. of automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...
...however, that their offensive had upset Franco's summer plans and destroyed the possibility of a Franco victory before the end of the year. In Saragossa, the Rightist Defense Ministry called for recruits from among its 18-year-olds to enter infantry service by the end of the month...
After a three-month study of Britain's year-old proposal for slicing the Holy Land into British-mandated, Arabic and Jewish States, members of His Majesty's Government's technical commission last week sailed from Haifa for London. Their pilgrimage to the Holy Land had been marked by an intense wave of Arab-Jewish terrorism. As the members departed, Britain's Colonial Secretary, youthful Malcolm MacDonald, arrived by air, spent two days secretly inspecting the security measures Britain has been forced to take...
...mountain of luggage, exceptional even for a traveling British peer, went with Lord & Lady Runciman to Prague. He told reporters: "I may stay a month, or it may be three months." The Czechoslovak Government, on discovering that the British Legation staff were turning out in top hats to meet a Purely Private Person at the station, sent their own top hats, and in every observable respect Britain's unofficial mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague...
...many a football fan, the news was somewhat puzzling. They all knew that "The Whizzer," who had worked his way through the University of Colorado doing odd jobs at 30? an hour, had refused the Pirates' offer of $15,000 (for twelve games) last winter after a month of trying to decide which he wanted more: $15,000 or two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar...