Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British were exerting pressure," snapped the Professor. "They were demanding immediate payment from us for bunker coal and freezing up on credit." Off the record Italians were said to have noted that, within 24 hours after II Duce refused the concessions regarding Ethiopia offered by Britain last summer (TIME, Aug. 26), British bankers flashed urgent messages to their U. S. affiliates and, when these curtailed credit to Italy, their action was given by British bankers subsequently as a reason why they could not extend credit to Italy. "I have been steadily engaged in adjusting the National economy to [such] existing...
Left. By Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, horse-racing whiskey tycoon (TIME, Aug. 19): $35,000,000, mostly to his daughter, who paid an estate...
...average is 289, exactly the same as the Cubs . Both the Tigers and the Cubs have topnotch infields. The Tigers have a super-star Hank Greenberg, on first base. Their pitching ace, Schoolboy Rowe a lanky Arkansan like Lon Warneke last year won 16 games in a row. Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore, in Mickey Cochrane the Tigers possess not only the best catcher in either league but one who is apparently on his way to proving himself the ablest major-league manager since...
Such journalism on the part of the World-Telegram was a direct development of an article called "?And Sudden Death" by Joseph Chamberlin Furnas published in the August issue of Reader's Digest (TIME, Aug. 12). Using that article's brutally realistic method of shocking motorists into a vivid realization of the physical horror of a bad automobile wreck, the World-Telegram thus became the first important daily to put its newscolumns into the amazing safety crusade which "?And Sudden Death" started two months...
...instantly recognizing it as a Goya of about 1787. asked permission to include it in all future editions of his book, Francisco de Goya. Within a month it was sold to Mrs. William R. Timken, sister-in-law of Henry Holiday Timken, maker of Timken Roller Bearings (TIME, Aug. 19). Well known only to dealers is Mrs. Timken's collection which includes a Boucher, a Fragonard, a Gainsborough and a brace each of Greuzes. Rembrandts and Van Dycks. The lady with the parrot is Mrs. Timken's only Goya...