Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the "hopelessness of Hopewell" (TIME, Aug. 6) was etched by a more searing acid than a labor controversy is obvious even to insignificant chemists like myself. Its name?technological obsolescence...
...telephone. The wanted man was Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The person who wanted him, at the other end of the telephone line, was General Hugh S. Johnson. The reason the Judge was wanted: the General had just settled Chicago's Stock Yards strike (TIME, Aug...
Life No. 2. On the morning of Aug. 22, 1914 General Paul von Hindenburg, retired, awoke in his house at Hanover in a sad mood. The War had come too late for him. "I wondered whether my Emperor and King would require my services," he wrote in his memoirs. "No hint whatever of the kind had reached me during the last twelve months." Suddenly came a dispatch informing him that His Majesty had given him command of the Eastern Army. He had only time to get together the most necessary articles of clothing and have his old uniform...
...thought last week that their father was alive. Safe at the Italian beach resort of Riccione in the villa of Dictator Mussolini's sympathetic spouse, they went down to the station with Donna Rachele Mussolini to meet their mother as she returned from-the State funeral in Vienna (TIME, Aug...
...Klondike River, in Canada's Yukon Territory, was the place to go for gold. As the summer neared its close the trail from the fields down through White Pass to the Alaskan port of Skagway was a jostling procession of prospectors. On Aug. 13 the Islander, 240-ft. pride of the Skagway-Victoria Line, steamed out of port with a 61-man crew, 108 passengers, a dozen stowaways, began threading its way through the narrow straits. At 2 a. m., when most of the passengers had reeled off to bed, the Islander hit something with a mighty impact, sank...