Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News-Magazine Aug...
...have read and greatly appreciated the treatises on the 14th Zionist Congress, now held in Vienna (TIME, Aug. 24-31). Your correspondents certainly deserve praise for presenting news so correctly and in so concise and vivid a manner; only one thing was to be viewed with alarm-the fact that this news was under the RELIGION section. As stated, the Congress was to discuss such problems as "Should the colonization of the Jews in Palestine be based on socialistic or capitalistic methods?", "Should the policies of Great Britain, as pursued under the commissionership of Sir Herbert Samuel, be approved...
...President Coolidge appointed Miss Jessie Dell, Georgia Democrat, for 25 years an employe of the War Department, to be a member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission succeeding the late Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener who gave her brain to Cornell (TIME, Aug. 17, Sept. 14, WOMEN...
...Senate Public Lands Committee (TIME, Aug. 17, Sept. 14, 21) last week saw a great deal of public land, and heard a great many public complaints. The western Senators who are on the Committee?Stanfield, Oddie, Cameron, Gooding?come up for re-election next year, and are very keen to please the complainants. So much will be heard of those complaints next winter in Washington...
Last week more than 70 British ships were tied up by the seamen's strike (TIME, Aug. 31, Sept. 14), and delivery of more than 750,000 tons of goods was being delayed. The trans-Atlantic steamers barely managed to keep sailing by snapping up every union or non-union seaman whom they could tempt into service...