Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City home, not to do any more prodding until October. Ten days in a Chicago courtroom had taught Mr. Reed (a reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay and ballotbox stuffing in Chicago's grimy wards, he was defied in court five times...
...followed closely TIME'S style since a casual newsstand acquaintance many months ago, I disagree with Mr. Bunbury's letter in TIME, Aug...
...Squelched with ire a Laborite proposal for adjournment only until Aug. 17 instead of Nov. 9, "because of the continued emergency arising from the continuance of the coal strike (TIME...
...Fifth International Democratic Peace Conference. Nine hundred of the delegates were young Germans, representing almost every German city. At the first session, the present month of August, 1926, was proclaimed "international peace month," the delegates voting to encamp in tents upon the onetime World War battlefields of France through Aug. 29, "in order to pursue an intensive study of international peace work...
Briefly, Germany accords France "most-favored nation" commercial status under the agreement, and France extends similar trade preference to Germary, though avoiding by disguised phraseology the term "most-favored nation." As initialed, the accord becomes effective Aug. 20, 1926, is renewable every six months, is expected to smooth the way for a formal Franco-German trade treaty of similar scope...