Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aug. 30, 1785, the French Ambassador to the U.S. reported that he had pressed U.S. Secretary of State John Jay for a settlement, only to receive an evasive and rather plaintive reply...
...contusions in which gangrene had developed, died last week at Cannes, French Riviera. Fascist bludgeons ? semi-flexible weapons of wood fibre covered with leather and loaded with lead ? killed him, drove his wife insane. These blows were struck many months ago, at Montecatini, in Tuscany (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925). It was only last week that their full effect was felt. Never again will Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Italian "Aventine Opposition," onetime Colonial Minister under Premier Nitti, stand up to oppose Benito Mussolini. The assassins are known but protected by the last amnesty. Roberto Farinacci, who recently...
Successful Insulin. Insulin (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923) has brought moribund diabetics out of coma, has prolonged the lives of sufferers several years. Complete cure of diabetes is not yet positive. Moderate doses of insulin are not permanently injurious. Yet a certain death definitely due to insulin over-dosage has frightened many persons. Quacks and some commercial biological chemists have misled slow-wits by exploiting substitutes. Some physicians have reported poor results from the true product because they had not learned its proper use. (Reported by Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y., after four years' verification...
Rainbow Rose. In TIME for Aug. 24 you will find a comedy called A Lucky Break marked unsatisfactory. The comedy now reappears with music added and remains strictly routine. It is about a rich man who discovered that his old home town loved him for himself and not his money. Fair music and moderately adept performers are included. One imitation monkey-dance by Hansford Wilson is all that mattered much...
...industry with statistical microscopes since last August. Chairmaned by the noted industrialist, Sir Herbert Samuel, they constitute the Royal Coal Commission. Last week they released a report of staggering dimensions touching upon every phase of the coal industry, which Premier Baldwin was obliged to subsidize for nine months, beginning Aug. 1, 1925, in order to avert a general strike (TIME, Aug. 10). The four gentlemen recommended that...