Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century, called it the loneliest and loveliest spot he had ever seen. Of the legends clustered about this historic shrine mellowest is the tale that for 160 years migrating swallows have arrived at the Mission each year on March 19 (St Joseph's Day), flown south again on Oct. 23 (St. John's Day). Last week on March 19, for the first time the swallows' arrival was recorded with newsreel cameras, radio broadcasting equipment...
...textile drive, announced it had a war chest of $3,000,000. Observers believed A. F. of L. unions would soon have to raise dues to make up for revenues lost by C.I.O. defections. U. S. organized Labor's mortal combat, anticipated for two years (TIME, Oct...
...alternating blandishments and threats to thrifty Frenchmen who< are comfortably off. Only a few months ago M. Auriol tricked investors by bringing out a "baby bond issue" with gushing Socialist appeals to French proletarians to buy, then devalued the franc in which these bonds are repayable 40% (TIME, Oct. 5). By last week the upping of wages and shortening of hours under the Blum deal had so greatly raised French costs that many a French exporter found himself obliged to quote to overseas clients prices in devalued francs which work out in dollars or pounds about the same as before...
Much less sense was made last week by officers of the N.Y.K.-greatest Japanese steamship line-who walked off the steamer Katori Maru at Yokohama, saying they had "gone on strike as a patriotic protest because the N.Y.K. last Oct. 29 failed to order all its ships in all parts of the world to hoist the Rising Sun flag while the Emperor was reviewing the Grand Fleet." This inconveniences Emperor Hirohito who intends that the Heian Maru, off which the strikers also walked, shall carry his brother Prince Chichibu to represent Japan at the Coronation in London. To be sure...
...strategic centres of our country has been the shame of education in the past decade." Superintendent Sutton had to mention no names, for fox-bearded William Andrew McAndrew, who was ridden out of his Chicago superintendency on farcical charges by Mayor William Hale ("America First") Thompson (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), was much in evidence. Twinkling at the Outstanding Service Award he received from the Exhibitors Association, Mr. McAndrew repulsed photographers by crying: "I belong to the loyal order of Little Blades of Grass who never have their pictures taken!" Onetime Superintendent McAndrew is now on the editorial board of School...