Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ornate and costly Manhattan home of Senator Clark was sold last year, its art treasures going to the Corcoran Gallery (Washington) after they had been refused by the Metropolitan (TIME, Aug...
...Texas of course the Democratic nomination is equivalent to election. The Democratic primary is to be held July 24. If any candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, he is nominated. If no candidate has a majority, another primary will be held on Aug. 20 in which the electorate will choose between the two who received the highest vote in the first primary...
...Memorandum recommended: 1) Temporary renewal of the coal subsidy (TIME, Aug...
...SACRED TREE - Lady Murasaki - Translated by Arthur Waley - Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). "Being a continuation," continues the title, "of The Tale of Genji," of which multivolumed novel of 11th Century Nippon (TIME, Aug. 3) a third part will shortly appear. Prince Genji, son of an imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger...
...Bath. President Serrato of Uruguay was made a knight of the British Order of the Bath as a mark of appreciation for his entertainment of Edward of Wales (TIME, Aug. 24). Not long ago President de Alvear of Argentina was similarly knighted...