Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Epstein's first statue of Christ, a dignified, rather Assyrian figure in bronze, raised howls of "sacrilege." There were just as violent outbursts against his sombre Mongoloid figures on the Underground Railways building (TIME, July 22; Aug. 26, 1929) and his great marble statue of a pregnant Negroid woman known as Genesis (TIME, Feb. 16; April...
Promptly the Press blossomed with denials from AAAdministrator Davis that any change in the loan policy was contemplated. Senator Bankhead, author of the Cotton Reduction Program, soothingly reassured the public that loans would continue into the new crop year beginning Aug. 1. A group of Cabinet officers and Senators hurried into conference with President Roosevelt, emerged to announce that the President was entirely in sympathy with the cotton control program. Bellowed Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina: "I think the same sinister forces that wrecked Hoover's farm program are at work to destroy our present cotton policy...
...Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, who live in Tahiti with their native wives and dusky children. In Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, U. S. Authors Nordhoff and Hall effectively told the whole story of the Bounty and its tangled sequel (TIME, Aug. 20 et ante...
...from Moscow to Riga, from Riga to Paris, from Paris to the front pages of the U. S. Press. The news leak: Andrew William Mellon had bought Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba for $1,500,000 from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (TIME, Aug...
...publishers who know what to do about it are Richard Leo Simon and Max Lincoln Schuster, who issued Inflation Ahead! at $1. Last summer they snapped up a pamphlet prepared by Briton's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, published it as The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug...