Word: aug
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman, he lobbied in Washington for Wyoming's gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which was finally approved last summer by Presi dent Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 7). As Postmaster General Farley's No. 1 assistant, Joe O'Mahoney had the Presi dent's ear. Now that he is in the Senate his friends expect him to take his place among the small army of Presidential spokesmen in that august body...
...employment agreements" to 5,000,000 employers of whom 3,000,000 sign. The Blue Eagle is born. "A truce on selfishness, a test of patriotism," cried General Johnson. Aug.5-National Labor Board is created to settle the wave of strikes created by the resurgence of organized Labor. Aug. 19-"The most memorable date in NRA history." It is sweltering in Washington. Since early morning, Administrator Johnson has been toiling with three groups...
...before the stock was turned over to them they were entitled to receive back the full amount they had paid in on installment, plus interest. ¶Stockholders of Socony-Vacuum finally satisfied the proposed merger of their Far Eastern oil properties with those of Standard Oil (N. J.) (TIME, Aug. 21). Thus a new overseas empire came into being, stronger than the sum of its parts: whereas Socony-Vacuum had markets in the East but no production, and Standard Oil had production but lacked markets, new Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. will have both. ¶It was news last October when...
...those men should succeed Mr. Legge. They named Addis Emmet MeKinstry, 63, who had worked for the company and its predecessor since he was 16, as stock boy, agent, district salesmanager, plant superintendent, vice president. ¶Hahn Department Stores, Inc., which lately parted with its founder, Lew Hahn (TIME, Aug. 21), last week parted with Paul Quattlander, its president since 1931. He pointed out in his third letter of resignation that the profit & loss account of Hahn Stores would be $2,850,000 better off this year than last, that "real earnings" are in prospect. He resigned, he said...
...Collins astounded the industry by showing a profit without a mail subsidy. All went well until last year when they rowed with the Ludingtons, who bought them out. The line was absorbed by a competitor. Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam opened a new line in New England (TIME, Aug. 21). Gene Vidal met Elliott Roosevelt at the swank River Club in Manhattan, talked aviation with him. One day last January he, Elliott, Mrs. Roosevelt and Louis McHenry Howe flew to Warm Springs. Gene Vidal spent three days there, informally expounding his views on aviation to the President-Elect...