Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minor Long's Ray System languished. Meantime Townsendism and Ham & Eggs ($30 Every Thursday) flourished all around him. Because the famed Ham & Eggs plan, like his own, entails circulating warrants, Minor Pierce Long last month went to Federal court in San Francisco, asked Judge Martin I. Welsh to halt preparations for California's Ham & Eggs referendum November 7. Judge Welsh issued a temporary injunction, threw a bad scare into Ham & Eggers. Last week Judge Welsh agreed with Minor Pierce Long that Ham & Eggs and the Ray System resemble each other in some respects. But he found "no identity...
...idea was planted in his head last month by bumptious, able MBS Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., who got Washington press galleries opened to radio reporters (TIME, May 8). At a small dinner party in Washington, Fulton Lewis heard Colonel Lindbergh on war in the world, peace in the U. S., and suggested that he broadcast his thoughts. On a Sunday afternoon three weeks later, Charles Lindbergh urgently telephoned Commentator Lewis, asked whether the offer of radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen...
...untouched. Federal Judge Thomas Whitfield Davidson in Dallas, ruling last month on a writ of habeas corpus in the "hot oil" case, declared that Mayor Maestri was "just as guilty" as Seymour Weiss and Richard Leche...
...still at her dock at week's end was the American Trader. Her C.I.O. crew suddenly struck for a $150-per-month war risk compensation for each seaman (average wages: $70 a month). The union also wants a $25,000 life insurance policy for each man, to be paid for by the U. S. Treasury. Another crew walked off the U. S. Lines' American Traveler with identical demands. By week's end two passenger vessels and four freighters destined for evacuation of U. S. refugees from Europe were tied up, foundering Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
Palestine's troubles this summer shattered the eucalyptus-shaded calm of Tabgha Hospice. Tourists kept away, and times became lean for businesslike Father Täpper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...