Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatly pleased to find in TIME, Aug. 5, your comments on the dismissal of George Lloyd as High Commissioner of Egypt...
...pestered by propagandists. They prey on his time, impede The Big Things. The Lord's Day Alliance delegates gained entrance to him by misrepresentation. Their declared purpose was to "pay respects" but once inside they had turned crusaders, made speeches. A new policy now bars all such pesterers (TIME, Aug. 12). The N. A. O. B. L. delegation was simply unfortunate in being the first to feel its effect...
...senators last week made hot haste to reach Washington in time for the reconvening of the Senate on Aug. 19. Reason: The Senate Finance Committee, badly stalled on tariff writing, admitted it could not complete its bill before next month. Gentlemen of the Senate had agreed to do nothing more than meet and adjourn for three-day periods until Sept. 3, when Chairman Reed Smoot of the committee was "almost sure" he would have the measure ready...
...until last fortnight's mutiny at Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, Aug. 12), was something done. Prompt then to speak was President Hoover. Last week he announced a new program to meet this old problem...
...most expensive cry" ever enjoyed by Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, deep-eyed, retired Assistant U. S. Attorney-General, was when she telephoned from Washington to California for moral support after she had been lampooned last summer as a religious incendiary (TIME, Aug. 12). So she revealed in the first of a now-it-can-be-told series of articles for a newspaper syndicate headed by the New York Times. In the same article she discussed, revealed something about the "much-heralded" speech to Methodists, at Springfield, Ohio, which brought the lampooning upon...