Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's father was a vinedresser ? a peasant in wooden sabots and an earth-stained blouse. As a lad, little Gaston wriggled his bare toes often in grape mash as he trod out the juices on which fermentation works. The circumstances of his rise (TIME, Aug. 2) need not be rehearsed again. Nothing is more certain than that when the King-Emperor and the President greeted each other last week, two able but almost incredibly lucky men shook hands...
...first time the Chamber of Deputies voted down, last week, a measure proposed by Premier Raymond Poincaré's present "Sacred Union" Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 2 et seq.). The Cabinet has stood unshakable until now, because of its great achievement in rescuing the franc from collapse and more than doubling its gold value. But today, with this crisis passed, and with a general election scheduled for next year, party strife is reviving. The vote last week was on a matter of no intrinsic importance; but it proved, by a count of 265 to 256 against the Cabinet, that Premier...
Last summer Thomas Cochran, J. P. Morgan & Co. partner, about to sail for Europe, spoke unwarily to a newspaper reporter, predicted that by the summer of 1928 General Motors common stock would be worth $300 a share (TIME, Aug. 16). Then General Motors declared a 50% stock dividend. If the revaluated G. M. C. stock reached $200, Mr. Cochran's prediction would be intrinsically accurate. Last week that contingency happened-G. M. C. stock sold on the New York Stock Exchange at $200.50 a share...
...morning of Aug...
...close. Yet he interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard a train at Rome, attended by four nurses and his sister, the Honorable Constance Gibson. Thus guarded...