Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had the Utrecht story broken last week, than it was declared by Foreign Office statesmen in Brussels and Paris to have been "entirely falsified." This, however, did not satisfy Queen Wilhelmina's large, stiff-necked, smugly garbed Foreign Minister, Jonkheer Beelaerts Van Bloklund (TIME, Aug. 27), long since nicknamed by correspondents "Blunt Beelaerts." From London, where he chanced to be last week, the Jonkheer instructed Her Majesty's diplomatic representatives in France and Belgium to demand official confirmation or denial of Dagblad's charges. Rarely has a news "scare story" been taken so seriously...
...morning after the Cabinet had squeaked through by two votes, M. Poincaré reminded correspondents with characteristic bravado of his threat when he last took office (TIME, Aug. 2 , 1926), namely, that so long as the Chamber gave him a majority of even one vote he would not trouble to resign...
Since his original decision of 1913 Mr. Morgan has refused the chair of innumerable mighty corporations; but the death of Judge Elbert H. Gary (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927) induced him to become Chairman of U. S. Steel Corp...
...take another author's (Louis Hemon's) locale and into it blend a tale of similar genre is a literary tour de force which James Oliver Curwood accomplished not long before his death (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). It is written simply, directly, with just enough characterization and scene to suggest verity...
...July 7 it was at 159⅞; Aug. 11, 199⅜; Sept. 15, 264; Oct. 13, 282. Then came rumors, followed by announcements, of chain store expansion, of a stock-split. Montgomery Ward skyrocketed. In the week ending Oct. 20, the stock climbed to 352, on Nov. 30 it reached its high for the year of 439⅞* Thus, during the year Montgomery Ward rose from 117 to 439⅞, an increase of 322⅞ points or about...