Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished company was there to organize a national movement for the reduction of crime (TIME, Aug. 10). Mr. Wickersham brought in a report of a committee on organization. It provided for a National Crime Commission, an informal body of prominent citizens, to be headed by a chairman, who should select a small committee, a finance committee and proceed by indirect means to a war on crime...
...first immigrant to come into the U. S. from Great Britain under the new immigration regulations. His papers showed that he had been found eligible for entrance into the U. S. when examined at Southampton, that a U. S. Public Health surgeon there had examined him on Aug. 4 and found him physically fit. In addition, he had been examined again on shipboard and finally passed. Such...
...private residence in Scotland. Before leaving the metropolis, which was several days after the shooting began, Their Majesties received a gift of several brace "to comfort them for not being among the grouse-shooting sportsmen." The Maharaja of Patiala, who is stopping in London in royal state (TIME, Aug. 10), received a present of 100 brace...
Prof. John Maynard Keynes, world famed economist who recently espoused the equally famed Russian dancer, Mile. Lydia Lopokova (TIME, Aug. 17, MILESTONES), came forward with a plan to resuscitate the Liberal Party. He suggested that it mix politics with sex questions ; more specifically, to include birth control, economic freedom of women and reform of the marriage laws in its party program. Said he in part: The questions which I group together as sex questions have not been party questions in the past. . . . There now are no subjects in which the big general public is more interested. Birth control, marriage laws...
...Oslo (formerly Christiania), Norwegian capital, Premier Johan Ludwig Mowinckel declared, during a day of national rejoicing, that "the incorporation of Svalbard makes Aug. 14 a red-letter day in our history. What happens today is an extension of Norwegian territory, and all Norwegians must rejoice that such an important territory in the Arctic Ocean becomes a part of Norway...