Word: interims
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...interim it had pleased the fancy of John D. Rockefeller Jr. to spend some $12,000,000 on converting the town into a bright, inhabited museum. Down newly-restored Duke of Gloucester Street President Roosevelt rode to the campus of the College of William & Mary, second oldest (1693) in the U. S.* On the stoop of its restored main building, designed by Sir Christopher Wrenn and Completed in 1697, the President sat in cap & gown while Publisher John Stewart Bryan of Richmond took oath as the college's 19th president...
...Barry (Dolores Del Rio) is brought to Louis XV (Reginald Owen) as nominee for a place in a distinguished line of mis tresses, and ends shortly before the Revolution when, with Louis dead and his watchmaker-grandson on the throne, du Barry is led off to prison. In the interim, she has gone sleigh-riding in midsummer on snow contrived of sugar; made her pickaninny body-servant Governor of Provence; averted war with England; given her jewels to the poor; and presented herself at court in her nightgown. All of this is told with credibility if not with historic accuracy...
TIME is inaccurate, as well as instrumental in aiding malicious belittlers, when it refers to California's Governor as Acting Governor Merriam. Merriam is Governor in the full, complete, and accurate sense of the word. He is no more Acting Governor during this interim prior to his actual election to the gubernatorial chair than President Coolidge was Acting President subsequent to President Harding's death and prior to his actual election in 1924. Since a Lieutenant-Governor's becoming Governor upon the death of his chief is exactly analogous to a Vice President's becoming President...
...betting ring to settle disputes between layers and players was grizzled John G. Cavanagh who had the same job 27 years ago. A onetime program salesman at New York tracks, then a vendor of bookmakers' sheets, he organized the Metropolitan Turf Association (bookmakers union) before 1900. During the interim of oral betting, '"Ringmaster" Cavanagh functioned as unofficial arbiter for a group of New York bookmakers...
...interim the Mechanics Educational Society (union of automobile tool and die workers) served notice on the entire motor industry that unless its members were granted a 20% wage increase, a 36-hour five-day week, its men would go on strike in six days. Impatiently the American Federation of Labor wired President Roosevelt that Dr. Wolman's Board was wasting time trying to mediate cases of discrimination instead of settling them summarily and proceeding to arrange for collective bargaining committees. Battered from pillar to post, the Board, whose appointment "settled" the strike which threatened three weeks ago to shut...