Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known, during the holidays, that he plans to resign as soon as he is satisfied that his Cabinet?in which he now holds no active portfolio?can carry on under another leader. After two and a half years of incessant and supremely successful work in stabilizing the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926 et seq.), the Prime Minister and former President of France is anxious for release from arduous and poorly paying public duties...
There the Emperor Napoleon sent the Empress Josephine to pass a quiet spell. Later her very room was occupied by M. Paul Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet...
...recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire the first "big gun" salute since the U. S. officially "recognized" the Nationalists months ago (TIME, Aug. 6). The failure of U. S. guns to boom seems an inexcusably missed trick...
...Died Aug. 31, 1927, only one of the 15 Presidents mentioned...
Nathan S. Jonas was born in Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 1, 1868. He attended Brooklyn public schools, Wright's (Brooklyn) Business College, was office boy, bookkeeper, traveling salesman and insurance agent. From 1902-07 he served on the New York City Board of Education. He is a member of Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences and has given liberally to Jewish charities...