Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agencies in Cleveland-where 300,000 of the 1,200,000 population receive some kind of Governmental aid and 75,000 are on direct relief-had broken down almost completely for six days. Last week, Cleveland's relief funds gave out again. This time, in the mild spring weather, there was no danger of freezing, but lines of people, some of them women with children in their arms, lengthened outside the city's relief stations. At two stations, applicants sat down, refused to budge for two days. At another a dozen or so formed a brass band...
...time Adolf Hitler arrived in Rome last week (see p. 22), His Holiness Pope Pius XI had retreated from the comforts of the Vatican and gone to his unheated palace at Castel Gandolfo, which he does not usually visit until definitely warm weather has arrived. The Pope was represented as displeased because the Führer had not requested an audience. To pilgrims at Castel Gandolfo the Holy Father said that it was sad that "on the feast day of the Holy Cross of Christ the banners of another cross [the swastika], which certainly is not that of Christ, should...
...FINE SUMMER WEATHER - Catherine Whitcomb - Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental...
...back with me and fight for France and victory. Can you think of a better way to spend your summer than in Spain, Spain of the Alhambra and legends galore? What an ideal spot! And I might add that the early Spring gives promise of unusually fine weather this summer...
...Further outlook for the British Isles: Fair over Ireland and England." Instead of a matter-of-fact report on the weather, the statement might well have been the prognostication of a political commentator for that afternoon at No. 10 Downing Street British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had put their signatures to a far-reaching accord and buried the bloody shillelagh which for seven centuries the two nations have been hurling back & forth across the rough Irish...