Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orchids to Alice Stallknecht Wight for her splendid portrayal of Cape Cod life in her portrait The Last Supper [TIME, Aug. 5]. Looks like a bad night for sailors to visit Chatham's First Congregational Church on Wednesday night. Speaking of sailors, since when have Coast Guard warrant boatswains been exemplified with the title of captain? My only objection. Suggest you read up on naval terms. Would it be possible for the painter to explain the reason for the honor so nobly bestowed upon the Coast Guard? Or does she try to convey to the looking public that members...
...your article on "Keyboards" (TIME, Aug. 5) you give the cost of the Vertichord $295 to $445. Should have been $395 to $445, f. o. b. factory. I believe such honorable merchants as John Wanamaker (New York & Philadelphia), Lyon & Healy (Chicago), and Sherman, Clay & Co. (San Francisco), and others who sell Vertichord pianos will appreciate a correction. Vertichord is a trade name. There are other makes of the new vertical piano types which sell as low as $295-but not Vertichords...
...Every U. S.-born Boy Scout can hope some day to be President of the U. S. Because Franklin Roosevelt does not want any more U. S. Presidents to have the physical handicap he has, he canceled a Boy Scout jamboree scheduled for Aug. 21 in Washington because poliomyelitis was epidemic in nearby Virginia...
...paralysis broke out along tidewater North Carolina. At first the number of cases seemed no more than natural for the season. But the disease crept north and west until an epidemic was undeniable. Last month it moved into Virginia. Fortnight ago it splattered into the District of Columbia (TIME, Aug...
...Cumming told him. Twenty-three cases had been reported in Washington since Jan. 1, five since Aug. 1. In Virginia, there were, at the last count, 414 cases, in North Carolina 519 cases. The disease was not very virulent and the death rate from it had been remarkably...