Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took a forward step during the week when the Senate Audit & Control Committee lifted Senator Wallace Humphrey White Jr.'s all-inclusive broadcasting investigation demand out of storage by earmarking $25,000 for the probe. And Texas' Representative William Doddridge McFarlane renewed in the House his ten-month-old demand for a radio monopoly investigation. He freshened up his act by charging that two unnamed former U. S. Senators had taken bribes. Mr. McFarlane wants to reopen an old antitrust suit against the Bell System and RCA and its subsidiaries. The suit was settled by 1932 amendment...
Since Lawrin's owner had not seen fit to nominate him for the Preakness (for which nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field...
Married. Julian Denegal Steele, 30, Harvard-educated Negro settlement worker; and Mary Bradley Dawes, 30, Boston University-educated white school teacher; in Manhattan. When their engagement became known last month, both lost their jobs. When their marriage became known last week, they separated, postponed their wedding trip because of "the sudden glare of publicity...
...Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...
...filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His very first day Jimmy Marshall split not only with the Tammanyites but with his Fusion colleague, supported a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 18. Before the month was out he was known as the most uncompromising member of the Board of Education...