Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 20 in a footnote appears the following sentence: "Two days after the President's speech, Associated Gas & Electric System ran an advertisement headlined 'Taking from Peter to Pay Paul...
...fact is that the Associated Gas & Electric System's advertisement, "Taking from Peter to Pay Paul," was prepared long before the date of the President's speech, was first published in the New York Times on Aug. 7, two days before the President's speech, and instructions for the publication in other newspapers had been previously given. The appearance of the advertisement in some papers after the President's speech was a mere coincidence...
...Thomas Montgomery Howell who landed a record-breaking 936-lb. tuna off Nova Scotia?TIME, Aug. 27] please invite him to meet me next month at Chief Nestucca, Neel's Place, 90 miles west of Portland for some real fishing? Angling for the Royal Chinook Salmon...
Sirs: Your issue of Aug. 27 connects me with "Stevens-Duryea." My thanks for your generosity but I have no desire to steal my brother's thunder. I had no direct part in S-D cars but consider myself their grandfather. I took my brother J. Frank from the farm twice and pushed him from shop to shop until he was drawing toolmaker wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company?the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were...
...issue of Aug. 20 I notice the face of Lucien Warner of corset fame?a colleague of mine on the Oberlin College Trustee Board. His father was a trustee before him and in 1882 he offered the College $75,000 for a music hall. A member of the faculty with a conscience of abnormal development questioned whether it was ethical to accept such a donation from a man whose money "had been squeezed out of the girls." However the College took the gift and built what is now known on the campus as Warner Hall...