Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Postmaster Peterson of Douglas, Ga., committed suicide this spring (TIME, April 16), people said it was because he had gone broke paying the politicians for his job. It aroused a Senate investigation of how Federal patronage is dispensed in the South, an investigation which got afoot last week under the leadership of Iowa's Brookhart. Georgia's George was on the committee, too, and Ohio's newly-seated Locher...
...with three independent, competing systems, was not so well pleased. International Tel. and Tel. merged, this spring, with the telegraph and cable companies of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. But Radio Corporation of America, restrained by federal act, cannot fuse with cable companies, cannot merge with International Tel. and Tel. or with the mighty Western Union system. Divided, competitive, U. S. cable and radio chiefs wondered how they were to battle Britain, already ahead, for first place in the world of international communications...
...This spring, Supersalesman Farrell, president of the corporation, went to Europe. Ostensibly, so far as financial writers could discover, he had no more subtle purpose than to "observe conditions." U. S. steelmen had been alarmed by the vigorous recovery of the German mills, which were threatening severe competition with U. S. industry. It was, therefore, no great surprise when the cryptic announcement of the export combine closely followed Mr. Farrell's return. The combine appeared as a typical Farrellian stroke in the campaign to develop the foreign market...
...SPRING PLOWING-Charles Malam-Doubleday Doran...
Schooled and approved by Robert Frost, a new poet interprets New England hills and fields and gaunt good folk. Spring plowing he has watched as the turning over of old earth that the sun might shine on new surfaces. Such things he wants to share with "those who love new sods...