Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years ago (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Uncensored sources told of men & women driven with whips amid the flare of torches to pick-ax frozen ground during the long Arctic nights. Censored sources presented the Stalin Canal as a glorious social achievement in which "criminals redeemed themselves'' and official Soviet newsreels have spread...
...Elected Bishop of Vermont's 6,000 Episcopal communicants was Rev. Dr. Vedder Van Dyck, vice Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton who was offered the post (TIME, Aug. 12) but declined. Chunky, pink-faced Dr. Van Dyck, 46, has been rector of St. Paul's in Burlington since...
...Washington's Mayflower Hotel one night last week gathered 1,000 people to salute Bishop James Hugh Ryan, retiring Rector of the Catholic University of America, who was about to depart to the diocese of Omaha to which the Vatican had promoted him (TIME, Aug. 19,). His purple robes swirling, his broad countenance twinkling, Bishop Ryan shook hands with such men as Ambassador Hans Luther of Germany, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Berry Keenan, Bishop James Edward Freeman and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes from the Episcopal Cathedral. President Roosevelt sent a letter which Postmaster General Farley read. Mr. Justice Pierce...
Marriage Revealed. Daniel Michael ("Danno") O'Mahoney, 23, of Ballydehob, Ireland, world's heavyweight wrestling champion on furlough from the Irish Free State Army (TIME, Aug. 12); and Nurse Julia Esther Burke, 27, of Cambridge, Mass.; in Cambridge...
...taunted him about his lameness; he was oppressed by thoughts of living in Newstead, the chill, half-ruined manor that was haunted with memories of the crimes of his wild ancestors. He carried with him the manuscript of Childe Harold but expected nothing from that poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed his "outrageous" will that carried its explicit provision for the "disposal of his carcass." He slept in an enormous bed decorated with Oriental splendor, kept four skulls...