Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Details of all this came vividly to light for the first time last week when a Tokyo court martial took up the famed case of Samurai Son Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26). His defense was that General Nagata had been a friend of Japanese Government "bureaucrats," politicians, businessmen and other chicken-hearted civilians despised by the Fighting Services. Counsel for the defense loudly objected to the Prosecution's failure to state in the murder charge "the difference between public and private acts, the intrinsic nature of the Imperial Army, and the fact that the Supreme Army Command had been disturbed...
Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to Britain: He enlisted in the British cause on Aug. 4. 1914. Thereafter, despite his superiors' protests, he took Britain's part in its disputes with his country, did his best to drag his country into war at Britain's side...
...Secretary Balfour had told President Wilson and Secretary Lansing all about the secret treaties. Furthermore, declared Senator Clark, Secretary Balfour had left with the State Department "a comprehensive memorandum" concerning the treaties. Then the Missouri Senator drew out the record of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Aug. 19, 1919, once more let the Wartime leaders speak their parts...
...Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government in 1934 for one Raphael Madonna (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934 et seq.) Yet for her money Mrs. Rockefeller was able to get good, if not great, examples of almost every well-known modern from Odilon Redon to Peter Blume...
...damages against Mother Hewitt, two physicians and a State psychologist. She charged that her mother, greedy for the whole trust fund income, had had her sterilized. From the fantastic miasma of charges and counter-charges which promptly enveloped the case, the following facts emerged undisputed. On Aug. 14, 1934 Mrs. Mary S. Scally, a State Health Department psychologist, examined Ann Cooper Hewitt in San Francisco, gave the 20-year-old girl a mental age of 11. Dr. Tilton Edwin Tillman, Mrs. Hewitt's physician, recommended that Ann be sterilized as feebleminded. On Aug. 18, suffering from appendicitis, the girl...