Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign orator, the noble Viscount has no peer in scathing invective and corrosive scorn. He quit the Labor Party four years ago to campaign for his old friend James Ramsay MacDonald so that the National Government formed at the behest of King George (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931) could triumph at the polls. Last week Viscount Snowden proved that his heart in Britain's next general election is with Labor...
...victory is a victory for Democracy," announced the forthcoming Premier. "The results make clear that the people of Canada are opposed to planning for scarcity by the restriction of production, of trade and of employment, and that they are not satisfied with the Ottawa trade agreements [TIME, Aug. 29, 1932] and welcome the prospect of their early revision. . . . The election is an unmistakable verdict in favor of the liberation of external and internal trade; of reciprocal agreements with the United States, and the restoration of trade with Japan upon a basis mutually beneficial in the case of each of these...
Austria was represented at Geneva last week by eloquent old Herr Emeric von Pflüql. Referring to Il Duce's prompt massing of Italian troops on the frontier of Austria, which prevented the backers of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' assassins from seizing the Government (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), snowy-haired Delegate von Pflüql cried: "Austria will never forget that at a fateful moment in her history it was Italy who, in the best spirit of the League Covenant, helped by her attitude to safeguard the integrity of another League member, my country. Our friendship with Italy...
...oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage as Baron Tweedsmuir (TIME, Aug...
Berkeley (Calif.) sold 253 farms in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 as against 106 in the previous period. Cash down payments averaged 24% this year as against 19% last year...