Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oct. 16, 1853, from San Francisco, a small, freckled, poker-faced, soft-spoken Tennessean named William Walker, 29 years old, sailed with 45 assorted killers, down-and-outers and adventurers to capture Lower California as the first step in privately annexing Mexico and Central...
...pleased was Premier Benito Mussolini, who has been hotly demanding recognition of Franco and stirring up Italian editors to flay "Tony"' Eden, that last week the Dictator confiscated the entire edition of an Italian humorous weekly which had mildly cartooned "Tony." As the British Parliament adjourned to Oct. 21, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wrote and privately dispatched to II Duce a "personal letter of friendship...
Denied an automobile driver's license when he flunked his examination last year, granted one when he passed a second examination a month later (TIME. Oct. 5), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 80, suffered a fractured nose and possible fractured arm in Plymouth, Mass.. when his auto, which he was driving from Boston to Cape Cod, collided with another...
...total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote of 82-to-52. Next the Dail obediently adjourned until Oct. 6, left the President free to go forward with his arrangements to fit the Free State with the new Irish Constitution just ratified in a national referendum...
...industry and the window glass makers, and four Robinson-Patman Act cases, notably those involving Standard Brands and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. FTC's first Robinson-Patman Act cases were closed this week. Dismissed were the complaints filed against Kraft-Phenix Cheese and Bird & Son. Inc. (TIME, Oct. 12). In the Kraft case FTC held that this company's price rating did not lessen or injure competition. In the Bird case, which involved selling floor coverings to Montgomery Ward & Co. for less than the price to retailers, FTC held that the lower price was justified by difference...