Word: references
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to co-operative cold storage lockers. They were first introduced on the Pacific Coast some five years ago when a group of alert farmers decided to preserve their own meat, fruit and vegetables the year round on a budget they could afford even in depression times...
...Officer members of the Olympic party disgraced themselves during a performance given for the benefit of the athletes. I refer to the mock marriage and mock trial ... so shocking that many athletes walked out of the social hall. . . . The trial was presided over by Gustavus T. Kirby who so handled the dialog having to do with marital situations that it was open to questionable interpretations and altogether unsuitable for youthful ears...
...refer to Morris Rothenberg. . . ." At that name, 2.000 Jews in Providence, R. I. one day last week leaped to their feet cheering. Then they heard another name. ". . . Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. . . ." Soon thereafter the delegates to the 39th annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America elected Rabbi Wise their president for the next two years; created a new post, that of chairman of the administrative committee, for Morris Rothenberg, Manhattan lawyer and outgoing Zionist president. Thus did U. S. Zionism compose its differences to present a united front against practical threats to their dream of a Jewish homeland...
...custom nor inclination to remonstrate with periodical editors upon the policies of their magazines but I cannot overlook one of the articles in TIME, June 22. I refer to the one entitled "Publishing Church...
Future historians will probably not linger long over the Democratic Convention of 1936. They will record the automatic renomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner, refer briefly to a platform hand-made at the White House (see p. 14), remark on the high spirits of the delegates and pass on to matters of larger moment. But many a young Democrat will long remember his Party's Philadelphia party last week as one of the wildest political jamborees ever staged. Whatever the donkey's doings may have lacked in heavy brain work, it more than made...