Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a four-day investigation, during which he queried Weather Bureau officials, Relief officials, camp officials and residents of the storm-wrecked Florida Keys, State Attorney George Ambrose Worley last week came to the conclusion that no one was responsible for the failure to evacuate veterans on relief before last fortnight's hurricane killed 458 (TIME, Sept. 16). "There will be no indictments or recommendations of indictments," said he, bundling up his report and speeding it off by automobile to Governor Dave Sholtz at Jacksonville...
...Storm over the Andes (Universal) tells an improbable story about an implausible group of wildcat aviators who help Bolivia win a fictitious war-in-the-air over the Gran Chaco. It inevitably portrays a cocky, ready-fisted individual (Jack Holt) whose general unpleasantness includes the fact that he can fly better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition...
...University's decision to undergo the expense of establishing suitable quarters for the commuters on condition that the latter would finance the upkeep of the building was arrived at late last March as the result of a storm of protest and criticism which lasted during the greater part of the college year and which was brought to bear on University officials through the efforts of the commuters themselves and of Phillips Brooks House...
President Roosevelt wrote his reply to Mr. Howard on the day last week's hurricane hit the Florida Keys, swept nearly everything else off the front pages (see col. 2). Four days later, after the storm headlines had passed, it was issued to the country. Choosing his words carefully the President undertook to reassure the country on four points...
...over the southeastern horizon. By noon a stiff blow was on. By 4 o'clock the Dixie was pitching, rolling and trembling from stem to stern in the grip of a full-sized tempest which had caught her in the perilous Florida Straits. Night came down and the storm increased, sending waves clean over her bridge, blinding her officers with solid sheets of rain. At 8:12 p. m. the Dixie's bottom grated over something that felt like a giant washboard, stuck fast on a hidden reef...