Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aug. 15, 1927, TIME requested Subscriber Epstein not to make unbridled use of the term...
...Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition Party, which was called for next week in Chicago...
...Even staunchest friends feared, last week, for the grizzled statesman's grip on Power. His famed Cabinet of Sacred Union comprises representatives of parties bitterly opposed, who laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French politicians have not lost the art of quarrelling. For example, Deputy Oran Molle doubled his fist, in the Chamber lobby, last week, and aimed a blow at Deputy Freissineng, who nimbly ducked, remarking: "Merci, mon ami! But today...
Elected. Felix d'Herelle, famed French-Canadian bacteriologist, discoverer of the bacteriophage (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926); to the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine...
...eighteenth paper he had purchased since he became editor and part owner of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette in 1906. Mergers and one sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds...