Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Suetsugu permitted the police to give deputies opposed to the bill some protection, and the more inflammatory posters were pasted over with milder ones. To prove that His Imperial Majesty's Government was not asking anything unreasonable of the Diet, Government newsorgans came out prematurely (a month before even the U. S. House had passed the big Navy bill) with the screamer: "AMERICA PASSED GENERAL MOBILIZATION...
While bombs and shell fire were making rubble out of Luis Quintanilla's murals and his studio near University City, he fought with the Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship...
...audience sat David Selznick when Jezebel had its Hollywood premiere early this month. As Actress Davis venomously kicked aside convention, twisted the code of Southern chivalry, bit her lips to make them kissable, patted her cheeks with a hairbrush to make them scarlet, the audience glanced toward Producer Selznick to see how he liked these things that smacked of Gone With the Wind. If he let fall any comments, they fell in private...
...American Committee on Rights of Religious Minorities, a 20-year-old body to which belong such people as Nicholas Murray Butler, Herbert Hoover, Senator Arthur Capper, did not forget His Beatitude's words when he became Premier last month (TIME, Feb. 28). To Patriarch Cristea the Committee's Chairman John Howland Lathrop wrote urging that, for the sake of the Christian church throughout the world, he moderate his stand. Last week, to the great surprise and pleasure of Jews in Rumania and abroad, the Patriarch...
...month San Franciscans have stopped to stare idly at what, so far as anybody knows, were the first Chinese picket lines in the U. S. Last week Joe Shoong filed suit against the Ladies' Garment Workers for $500,000 damages and finally got an injunction to stop the picketing. Also, last week, the Ladies' Garment Workers applied for an injunction to stop Joe Shoong from putting signs in his windows implying that the dispute was purely jurisdictional. In addition to indignant notices saying that the pickets were C. I. O. while the clerks in the stores were...