Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after Congress meets on Jan. 3 the Patman bill is scheduled to be brought to the House floor. Similar preferential position awaits the Bonus in the Senate, as the result of an Administration deal with Bonuseers on the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week it was reported that the Legion and the VFW. having agreed to get behind a single bill with no mention of money-raising methods, had also won Representative Patman over to their view point. But no matter which way Bonuseer Patman twists, observers agreed that with elections only a few months distant a Bonus...
...Pennsylvania servant girl, said she had been working for a couple in Newtown, Pa. when the man of the house got her into trouble. His wife sent her to St. Louis where the wife's mother was a midwife. In her house Anna said she bore her baby Aug. 17. Next night the baby was taken away to be "adopted." Weeks later, said Anna, she had learned through an entirely different case the identity of the woman who had her child. She now wanted him back. In his recommendation to the Court of Appeals, tantamount to final decision, Commissioner...
...Family! Why should it be applied to the workers?" ¶ Received beamishly the maiden speech of Punch Humorist A. P. H. (Alan Patrick Herbert) who set out on his parliamentary career last week by wanting to reform "the indecent, cruel and hypocritical marriage laws of 'this country!" (TIME, Aug...
...Standards. Dr. Dellinger had noticed a curious fade-out of daytime reception of high-frequency signals, occurring at almost uniform intervals approximating 54 days, twice the sun's rotation period. These mysterious mufflings, lasting a few minutes, were perceived this year on March 20, May 12, July 6, Aug. 30. Accordingly Dr. Dellinger predicted another fade-out on or just before...
...fade-outs seem to be due to sudden, localized disturbances on the solar surface. To confirm this Dr. Dellinger asked Mt. Wilson Observatory if anything peculiar had showed up in the spectrohelioscope observations on the fade-out days. Back came word that on July 6, Aug. 30 and Oct. 24, within a few minutes of the fading, huge clumps of gas on the sun had manifested marked changes in form and behavior...