Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...blossom on an old religious plant which Bishop William Thomas Manning blessed in Manhattan last week when he dedicated the Chapel of our Savior in a 13-story annex of the Seamen's Church Institute (founded 1843). The whole annex will be dedicated next autumn. Then the institute will be using structures which cost $5,000,000.* It is 75% selfsupporting. Voluntary subscriptions make up the rest. It is organizations like Seamen's Church Institute which get the money collected after the "ship's concert" on ocean liners...
...ultimate authority on all British financial matters, the Bank of England last autumn decided that British industry, collapsing from its own unwieldy weight, should be rationalized. To accomplish this. Governor Norman in November announced that the bank had formed a subsidiary, Securities Management Trust. Ltd. It was this company which he and his Old Lady used last week to make their entrance into the most basic of all industries...
...Last autumn the Democratic-Progressive coalition voted into the measure the Export Debenture Plan and a provision taking from the President his power to flex rates 50%. Later the Senate, passing the Bill, sent it to conference with the House with instructions to its conferees not to compromise. The House conferees returned to their body and received a mandate to reject the Debenture and non-flexibility (TIME, May 12). Because?their hands were tied, the Senate conferees were stalemated...
...scene from Gordin's Homeless as an afterpiece. The presentation, they said, was in accordance with their father's wish and this is the first opportunity to forgather since his death five years ago. After a U. S. tour they plan to open the season next autumn with a new play-possibly on Broadway, possibly in English...
...better guidance, the research division of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, has spent three years in developing a device by which the pilot may see his signals. Known as the visual radio range beacon, the invention won public notice last autumn when Lieut. James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his famed blind flight at Mitchel Field, L. I. (TIME...