Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently Abyssinia, last native state in Africa to survive undominated by one or more of the Great Powers, protested to the League Secretariat (TIME, Aug. 9, ABYSSINIA) that Great Britain and Italy have concluded a mutual agreement for exploiting certain Abyssinian territories in defiance of the Empress Zauditu of Abyssinia...
...TIME, May 24). . . . Hundreds of thousands of men are refusing to pay dues to their unions. . . . The men are deserting and forming new unions." Total Deadlock. The striking miners have voted during the past fortnight on a peace proposal submitted by a group of English bishops (TIME, July 26, Aug. 9) for the settlement of the coal strike. Though the bishops proposal had the endorsement of the Miners' Federation Executive Committee, it was rejected last week by the miners 367,650 to 333,036. Rationally considered, this rejection displayed considerable mass common sense among the miners, for Premier Baldwin...
...National Assembly to amend the Constitution -a grave step for Frenchmen, whose Constitution had sustained but two amendments since it was promulgated at Versailles in 1875. M. Poincaré would shortly demand that the internal debt of France be irrevocably guaranteed by making constitutional the recently passed legislation (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.) creating an autonomous sinking fund outside Parliamentary control from which the internal debt will be repaid under the supervision of non-partisan experts. Beside the accomplishment of this great purpose the cost of a few beds, of a little beer and wine, was not consequential...
...appearing gratis at the operas, concerts, recitals of his festival. Not only was Everyman played tut Turandot and Ariadne were sung. The towseled German Jew who with Gordon Craig laid the foundations of the new stagecraft triumphed last week at a festival which was recently an innovation (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) but has become a tradition today...
...evading responsibility- nothing more. Gentlemen breakfast, then naturally desire to know what the Chief Executive thinks, for example, about increasing, by Congressional legislation, acreage on Philippine rubber plantations. What do gentlemen read?". . . The Spokesman for the President indicated that the Administration feels favorably inclined toward rubber projects" (TIME, Aug. 16). Gentlemen glance at a Mr. Kellogg headline. ". . . The Spokesman for the Secretary of State can make no comment upon the Mexican situation." There must even be a Spokesman to refuse to comment. Enraged beyond being gentlemen, readers turn to pages where cavort persons who do not hold office. Here...