Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt Joe Kennedy saw last week was not the fractious, irritated, harried man who sat at the same cluttered desk last summer. A remarkable change has come over the President: once again he is relaxed, confident, charming. Gone is his captious attitude to the U. S. press. Old Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington columnists, noted the change a month ago, hopefully analyzed the President's bubbly jocularity as a signal he has decided not to run again...
...Reduction of the working day to eight hours, provision for a two-weeks' summer vacation for workers and reduction of house rents for workers and employes...
...Last summer, at an age when most hockey players put away their skates for good, 36-year-old Eddie Shore bought the minor-league Springfield (Mass.) Indians with $40,000 of his savings, planned to play with the minor-leaguers himself. Because Boston was loath to lose him, Eddie Shore agreed to play with the Bruins once a week (at $200 a game), manage the Indians the rest of the time, put off donning his Indian suit until next year...
Advocates of world union must thank Lord Halifax for clarifying an important issue. They now know what they have to fight. No one of them, surely, ever expected to draw up a simple "paper plan" and put it into practice as easily as you would change your summer oil. Fundamental social and economic changes are obviously necessary before the world's way of life can be brought to the perfection they seek. It is clear that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party...
...addition to playing "Charlie," Julian Hodberg '42, a veteran of summer stock in the East, also designed...