Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Selina goes to Chicago to try to sell some of her produce, she runs into Julie Hempel, old schooldays' friend. Julie's father, Aug Hempel, ex-butcher, is by this time one of the world's largest meatpackers. He offers to give Selina whatever she wishes. She will take nothing, except a loan-enough to modernize her farm. And with her modernized farm she educates Dirk...
...Embassy at Mexico City, the President nominated Charles Beecher Warren, 53 -three years to the day older than Mr. Fletcher-of Detroit. The post was recently recreated when the Administration recognized Mexico after a lapse of diplomatic relations since May, 1920. New conventions were drawn up last summer (TIME, Aug. 27). The two commissioners who negotiated the conventions for the U.S. were John Barton Payne and Mr. Warren...
After the ratification by the U. S. and Mexico of the Special Claims Convention, the Mexican Government appointed Senor Ramon Ross, who conducted the Mexican end of the Recognition Conference last Summer (TiME, Aug. 27), as Mexican Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the U. S. (For an account of the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, see Page 3, under CABINET...
Treaties. "There are two important treaties that have been signed and have to be ratified. There is the treaty with Turkey signed at Lausanne [TIME, Aug. 6], and the more recent treaty which I am glad to say has just been signed between France and Spain regarding Tangier, [TIME...
George Bellows, native of Columbus, O., began his studies at the Chicago Art Institute, continued them in New York under Robert Henri. Bellows is a successful and prominent member of the Woodstock colony (TIME, Aug. 6). It is his boast that he has never left the U. S., that his work is entirely free from foreign influence. It is this very provincialism which makes him one of the most Important American artists...