Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike of the miners in the anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, called because the wage contract with the Union had expired on Aug. 31 and no new contract could be agreed upon, continued another week without any progress and practically without any effort made...
...League as a valid champion of the status quo and returned toward the old system of security compacts or treaties. Germany cried aloud that she needed to be protected, and offered: a) To forget Alsace, b) To guarantee the French and possibly the Polish Czecho-Slovakia frontiers (TIME, Aug. 13) in return for guarantees as to her own safety from Britain and France. Since then the exchange of "notes" and "conversations" has been endless. Britain has shown an inclination toward the business and has talked about having Germany enter the League. Now it seems that an extra-League Security Pact...
Despatches from Syria spoke of preparations by General Sarrail (TIME, Aug. 17) to launch a great French offensive against the Druse tribes, which have been fighting valliantly to oust the French Mandate and set up a pan-Arab Government at Damascus...
...Aug. 26, 1921, Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, was assassinated. All Germany was in ferment. The wearing of their uniforms in the street by former Army and Navy officers was declared to be inciting unrest. A few days later President Ebert issued a decree forbidding the wearing of uniforms by ex-officers...
...ability are among the few utterly original items in the annual theatrical exhibition, in case you do not recall the name and wish to decide for yourself without waste of time, she played Lola Pratt in Seventeen, and the daughter of the curiosity shop in Tweedles (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923); was a year on tour in The First Year with her husband, Gregory Kelly; and last season was the incredibly dumb girl friend of the family in Mrs. Partridge Presents (TIME...