Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote on the prohibition issue. Any advantage that Pollard has by being related to Calvin Coolidge, Vermont's leading son, will be more or less balanced by the fact that Dale is a close friend of the President and was present at Plymouth in the early hours of Aug. 3 when President Coolidge took the oath of office...
...Chinese Government, in its answer to the Diplomats' note of protest regarding the bandit outrage near Tsinan (TIME, Oct. 15), stated that three of the officials whose punishment was demanded (TIME, Aug. 20) were dismissed, that a Presidential mandate had also dismissed the Military Governor of Shantung from his post and that further orders had been sent to provincial authorities " to redouble their efforts to suppress brigandage." The Government said, however, that it could not commit itself to a scheme for policing the railways. The demands for an indemnity for the victims of the bandit outrage were accepted...
...John Lavery's much-clawed-over portrait of Lady Lavery (TIME, Aug. 13) has found a resting-place. Lady Cunard, who held that Artist Lavery had been " insulted" when her offer to present the portrait to the Tate Gallery was rejected, has given it to the Guildhall Gallery, London. Lady Cunard is the wife of Sir Bache Edward Cunard (shipping magnate), and the daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York. Lady Lavery was Miss Hazel Martyn, daughter of Edward Jenner Martyn of Chicago...
...Forbes Godfrey, Ontario Minister of Health, revealed at a dinner of medical men that Dr. F. G. Banting, discoverer of insulin (TiME, Aug. 27), would shortly announce a new discovery " of even greater importance than the world-famed diabetes treatment." Dr. V. E. Henderson, of the pharmacological department of the University of Toronto Medical School, confirmed this with the words " Dr. Banting had something so good we couldn't believe it." Dr. Banting himself refused to talk. Until the new experiments have been repeated several times and the results thoroughly verified, the public will probably have to remain...
...Daily News caught and passed the New York Evening Journal about Aug. 1, 1923: Oct. 1 they stood: News, 633,578; Journal, 601,837. Both papers appeal to the city's gum-chewers. Charted lines of their respective rise and fall in the last six months are approximately complementary...