Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elaboration of the party platform proceeded monotonously and then David Lloyd George jumped up to make his promised keynote attack on Tory foreign policy. His point of savage attack was, of course, the secret Anglo-French naval agreement concluded by Sir Austen Chamberlain just before his nervous breakdown (TIME, Aug...
...telephone, and only grudgingly allowed him to send out for a sandwich and what Mr. Horan later described as "a bottle of water." Over and over and over the Agents asked him how and from whom he obtained the secret details of the new Anglo-French naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.), first scooped and published throughout the U. S. by Hearst newspapers...
...possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present, the Nationalists ?who have just wrested China from the grip of the various bandit "war lords"? are frankly constituting themselves as a benevolent oligarchy?with the blessing and full recognition of the U. S. Government (TIME, Aug...
...Lords could fling against him in a Death struggle to retain their power. This part of Chiang's saga should be told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, and was seen victoriously back in the fray. Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared...
...manufacturers and advertisers of these products. When each and every one had come to order, the first general U. S. fashion conference was declared to be in session. Experts and analysts explained and prophesied the swift revolutions of fashion. Foremost among fashion students, Manhattan's Amos Parrish (TIME, Aug. 20) distributed credit for notable efforts to make the U. S. fashion-conscious. Mr. Parrish praised...