Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Order of Elks of the World.* Guffaws of bass laughter rocked the President's office as he cracked jokes with the chieftains of IBPOEW and received from Grand Exalted Ruler James Finley Wilson, the "Little Napoleon of Negro Elkdom," an invitation to review a parade in Washington on Aug. 27, during the IBPOEW convention. Joining with Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson in pressing the invitation were Grand Commissioner of Athletics John Thomas Rhine, Washington's leading Negro undertaker; Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight Roy Solomon Bond, Maryland's most famed Negro lawyer, who claims to have won more divorce...
Instantly the President accepted the IBPOEW's invitation, provided he was still in Washington on Aug. 27. Ruler Wilson expected nothing less, for all his life prominent men have been his familiars. At 13 he was a bellhop in Chicago's Palmer House. For four years he was a Pullman porter on the Missouri Pacific. "Buffalo Bill" Cody set him up driving a stagecoach in Nebraska. He was a member of the distinguished horde of gold hunters in the Klondike. Tex Rickard, who used to call him "Little Britches," took him on as a business partner...
...Admitting to the Press that he did not think his $4,000,000,000 Works Relief program had put more than 75,000 or 100,000 men to work by Aug. 1, President Roosevelt predicted that 90% to 95% of the unemployed would have been given relief jobs by Nov. 1, but asked not to be held too closely to his estimate. Meantime he allotted $95,000,000 for direct relief in August...
...know that I am the man that is supposed to be dead, who wrote you and wired you opposing the Rayburn-Wheeler utility legislation. I am very much alive. . . ." Early in the week the Federal Communications Commission stepped in, ordered U. S. telegraph companies to produce by Aug. 15 detailed, sworn data concerning faked telegrams against the "death sentence," destruction of files containing protest messages. Thereupon Senator Black devoted the rest of the week to looking for dirt in a cigar...
...paints her Cape Cod neighbors into a Biblical subject, gives the mural to Chatham's First Congregational Church which was founded in 1696 by a fisherman. Three years ago she did it with Christ Preaching to the Multitude, with a beardless, sneering Portuguese fisherman for Christ (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). Last week she made more headlines when she gave First Congregational a companion piece called The Last Supper...