Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emerson died this summer at Intervale, N. H., at the age of 93 years...
...commodity prices must not be allowed to run away. Copper, for example, should not be allowed to reach 18? again. Though copper has often been a runaway (in 1916 reaching an all-time high of 31.89?), it got no higher than 17? last year, then dropped to 9? this summer...
...Steel, which once produced 90% of the nation's steel, now produces only 37% and is heartily tired both of being called monopolistic and of losing business to independent companies. Last summer, therefore, it abolished price differentials between its Pittsburgh. Chicago and Birmingham plants which had compensated independent mills for their competitive disadvantages...
Thick clouds of smoke have arisen all summer and fall from WTActivities in such important political vineyards as Kentucky, Tennessee, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. So far the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, headed by Texas' mild-spoken old Senator Morris Sheppard, has found no fire beneath the fumes though it has kept WPA's nimble Harry Hopkins on the jump answering questions...
...what politics is made of, and last week the Democratic high command at Washington got down to them with Frank Hague, perpetual mayor of Jersey City and boss of populous Hudson County. So sharp is the contrast between ironfisted, authoritarian Boss Hague and the libertarian New Deal that last summer Franklin Roosevelt felt obliged to reprimand the Boss publicly, if anonymously, for his suppression of civil liberties in Jersey City (TIME, July 4). The Department of Justice even went to the extent of sending G-Men to investigate Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed out of Jersey...