Word: oct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board of education in the state will make an annual investigation of all teachers and other employees, then report to the regents. Any employee found to be disloyal or a member of a "subversive group" will be tried, and if found guilty, fired. First reports will be due on Oct. 31. The regents promised to have a master list of subversive groups ready in September...
...British high commissioner once deposed him because he ordered the flogging of a white trader who seduced Bamangwato women; London quickly restored the regent (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In 1947, when George VI & family visited Bechuanaland, Tshekedi greeted them in the full-dress uniform of the Royal Horse Guards, presented to his father by Queen Victoria...
...York Post Home News (circ. 385,151), which has 25 columnists already, last week added one more. The newcomer: Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., 31, who won a Pulitzer prize for his Age of Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945), is now at work on the Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt. An associate professor of history at Harvard, Schlesinger is writing a weekly column from the vantage point of a "historian looking at the news...
...well knew that Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the Journal's star contributors. Her 1937 memoirs (This Is My Story) and monthly question & answer page (If You Ask Me) had helped push the Journal to its No. 1 spot in the U.S. women's magazine field (TIME, Oct. 4). He could hardly believe his ears when Mrs. Roosevelt told him that the Journal's co-editors, Bruce and Beatrice Gould, had found fault with her latest volume of memoirs and asked her to let them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese knew a golden opportunity when...
...advertising in 1939, splurged much of its $1,000,000 ad budget pushing the new "bold look." It ran sales up to a new high of $23.7 million (though, with higher costs, the net slipped to $1,000,000), second to Cluett, Peabody's (TIME, Oct. 11). Convinced that he has a winner in his new wrinkleproof collar, Phillips plans to push it with his biggest ($1,500,000) advertising campaign...