Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this job is crazy!" Why, then, had the General taken it? Washington gossips thought they knew the answer: the General, his appetite for public life whetted, hankers for a Cabinet post, thinks the President will recognize that one good turn deserves another. His term in New York expires Oct. 1. Significant was this dialog between a reporter and the General at Newark Airport...
...high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge in 1944, and the shriveled 83-year-old form of the Acid Drop lay in its grave. Indomitable to the last, Mr. Justice Avory had gone for a chill walk during his Whitsuntide holiday...
...President Roosevelt may have pointed the way to Bob Hutchins' future last autumn. President Hutchins called at the White House and for a few days the Press was rife with rumors that he was slated for a front-rank New Deal job, probably as NRA enforcement officer (TIME, Oct. 29). Then silence...
Article One: With a view to avoiding devaluation of the franc, the Senate and Chamber authorize the Government to take by decree until Oct. 31, all measures having the force of law to fight speculation and defend the franc...
...stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME, Oct...