Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters of the 7th Minnesota District from electing by a two-to-one majority Paul John Kvale (pronounced "Ka-volley") of Benson to the Congressional seat for six years occupied by his father, the Rev. Ole John Kvale, whose charred body was last month found in his burned summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will be the sole representative of that party in the House.* The new Congressman is an engaging young man, thoroughly Nordic in appearance...
That the matchmaker rivals or out-tops princes and statesmen in importance was indicated when the Saturday Evening Post's Isaac Marcosson, "world's most famed" interviewer, chose him as prime subject for investigation last summer. During an interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...
...Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken by the federation with a fervent, choral "aye." A committee was enthusiastically delegated to gather $1,000,000 to feed, clothe, house Southern strikers...
...Cambridge celebration in 1930 will probably be held during the summer months, in cooperation with the University authorities. Tentative plans call for an historical pageant to be staged in the Harvard Stadium, and for a programs dealing with the early days of the College, as part of the history of Cambridge...
...cannot ignore a correspondence that I had with him in the summer of 1898. At my summer home in the woods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, I got a letter from Mr. E. B. Barton, a young graduate, whose diploma, testifying that he had received the degree of A.B., had been eaten by rats in Wadsworth House. He petitioned for another diploma in its place. As I knew that the President's objection to duplicating a diploma was almost Draconian in its rigidity, I had scarcely a shred of hope for Mr. Barton; but I did write to Mr. Eliot, then...