Word: aug
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Basing his attack against the Government on the Anglo-Russian Treaty (TIME, Aug. 18), Mr. George said in a speech at Penmaenmawr, Wales: "In so far as it [the treaty] is not a fake, it is folly. In fact, it is both. It was hastily patched up at the end of the session because the Prime Minister had been held up by a number of Socialist gunmen of his own party. Let me emphasize the point that it has nothing to do with the rights or wrongs of the restoration of Russia. It is purely a question of whether...
...tremendous battle occurred on the border of the States of Matto Grosso and Sao Paulo in Brazil. No information escaped the censorship, but the fight was such that correspondents fearlessly declared it to be the most important since the rebels evacuated Sao Paulo City (TIME, Aug...
...strike that threatened to replace the orchestra of every musical show in Chicago with an electric piano (TIME, Aug. 25) and to spread throughout the music centres of the East (TIME, Sept. 1) has been checked at its source. The players' salaries are to be increased from 7 1/2% to 10%.- The agreement will be in force for one year, after which another squabble will be in good order. Mean- while, Chicago musicians are the highest paid in the world. Weekly they collect a minimum of $72.10, a maximum...
...seven groups among which, according to the Dun system, commodities are divided, two rose, three declined, and two remained unchanged. Meat advanced from 135 on Aug. 1 to 142 on Sept. 1, while dairy and garden products moved up from 115 to 118. Other foodstuffs fell from 188 to 185, clothing from 188 to 185, and miscellaneous commodities from 157 to 156. Breadstuffs remained unchanged at 170 and metals...
...that the Van Sweringens have made public their formal offer where by the stocks of the New Nickel Plate road (TiME, July 7, 28, Aug. 11, 18) will be exchanged for the securities of its constituent companies, the old question of the rights of minority stockholders has again come to the fore...