Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to jerk himself up by mighty tugs at the provincial bootstraps of Ontario to the Premiership of all Canada. As a build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent to win it Oct. 6. With chances heavily favoring "Mitch," last week Canadian wiseacres agreed that a victory for Liberal Premier Hepburn must severely shake the position and prestige of Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although both are still nominally Liberals, Hepburn and King have broken violently, thus threatening to split...
...election are the Ontario Conservatives. These are led by stolidly handsome and inarticulate The Honorable William Earl Rowe, M. P., chosen disciple of the nearest approach to Herbert Hoover ever produced in Canada, namely pompous Richard Bedford Bennett who as Prime Minister disastrously lost the last Dominion election (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935). Mr. Bennett, having picked Mr. Rowe to achieve high office, had King George V make him a Privy Councilor and groomed him carefully, but quite failed to develop a popular Conservative leader in Ontario...
...last week, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace made two announcements. One was that R. A., moribund since Dr. Tugwell resigned last winter, was at last officially dead. The other was that Greenbelt was at last ready for occupancy and that, when its first tenants move in about Oct. 1, all Greenbelt's commercial enterprises will be run by a branch of Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene's Consumer Distribution Corp...
...apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable than bitterlings, who project their ovipositors in the presence of any of several hormones" (TIME. Oct...
...Kalgan, South Chahar's "complete independence" from China was declared by "100 influential persons," headed by bland, pigtailed, 36-year-old Prince Te, a pro-Japanese Mongolian, long head of the "Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians" movement (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933, et seq.). It was Prince Te with his Mongolian levies who helped the Japanese to take Kalgan. The highest position in Japan's latest puppet state was to be his reward...