Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful to change the date of the action from 1905 to 1885, when the real Prince was a young boy. Although they may disappoint...
...cancel $1,000 the church owed him in arrears. The vestry asked him to resign. When he declined, a vestry committee went to the bishop. Three weeks ago Bishop Huston, whose son Wilber was the first ''prodigy" given a Thomas A. Edison college scholarship (TIME, Aug. 14, 1929), removed Rector Mook and appointed a successor...
Students (of the market) should cast a speculative eye towards General Motors in the vicinity of 28 (Sept. low--26 1-2; Aug. high--31 7-8; current high 30 1-4). A rally from 28 to 29 would complete an almost perfect technical pattern from which a vivid movement will ensue. Completing this formation, a rally to about 35 or a decline to 21 is indicated. It is felt that the bullish implication is more probable
...will be interested to know that through the agency of TIME the Federal Office of Education has been able to extend its service to a large number of persons recently. Mention of our new leaflet, The Cost of Going to College [TIME, Aug. 20], brought a host of requests from TIME readers, Insurance company officials, newspaper editors, educators, lawyers and persons in many walks of life asked for copies. To TIME our appreciation and also, I am sure, the appreciation of TIME readers who received copies of The Cost of Going to College...
Died. Dever Howard Warner, 65, board chairman of Warner Brothers Co. (corset manufacturers-TIME, Aug. 20); of a heart attack; in Fairfield, Conn...