Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini on the back stairs until after Nov. 14. Mr. Lloyd George got no satisfaction last week. He taxed Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to reveal the contents of the secret communication which passed between him and II Duce through Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador in Rome (TIME, Oct. 28), and spoke of it as "the famous letter...
...Harvard Law School, Professor Thomas Reed Powell, topflight authority on Constitutional law, was asked whether he would take the Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution (TIME, Oct. 14). Replied he: "Certainly I'll support the Constitution. The Constitution has been supporting me for 20 years...
...Motor Vehicles Frank A. Goodwin turned a letter from Mrs. Constance Lodge Williams, daughter of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Tart Mrs. Williams wanted to know why the Registrar had not "disciplined" John & James Roosevelt for driving through a red light into a train last month (TIME, Oct...
Major incident of the last World Series was the altercation between Umpire George Moriarty and members of the Chicago Cubs, who said that he had abused, humiliated and demoralized them (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, in Chicago, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced the penalties for such misbehavior: $200 fines against Umpire Moriarty and Baseballers Elwood English, Bill Herman, and Bill Jurges for "vile, unprintable language"; a $200 fine against Cubs' Manager Charles Grimm, for remaining on the field after Umpire Moriarty had ordered...
...four wheels-went rolling through the market on high, even if it rolled on a deficit basis. Strong also were Murray and Briggs (bodies), Libbey-Owens-Ford (auto-glass) and Kelsey-Hayes (wheels). Other favorites were steels and oils, while farm implement stocks continued their recent rise (TIME, Oct. 28) with J. I. Case going over...