Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 7 you had a story about some difficulty that William Amos Smith, whom you said had three boys and seven cats, was having with his neighbors. You stated that William Amos Smith was a justice of the supreme court and a former attorney-general. This identified the writer of this letter pretty well as the person who was having trouble with the neighbors over a bunch of cats. Now the fact is that it was William Redwood Smith who was having trouble with his neighbors over the cats. He is a former justice of the supreme...
...Aug. 28 President Roosevelt issued another order requiring every possessor of gold to register his holdings with the Treasury before Sept. 18. Those who failed to do so were also to be punished by ten years imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
...Sept. 27 after an 18-minute session a Federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Frederick Barber Campbell for failing to register gold now valued at $200,574.34 before Sept. 18 as required by the Aug. 28 order. Also imminent was a second indictment charging actual hoarding of gold in violation of the April 5 order...
...Adrienne Delamare, aged 12, wanted to marry brisk, bold-eyed Henri Pinteau, 17. Their parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
Married. Alfred Ernest Stearns, 62, longtime (1903-33) headmaster of Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.); and a Miss Grace demons; in Concord, N. H. Married. Meredith Nicholson, 66, Indiana author (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men), new U. S. Minister to Paraguay (TIME, Aug. 28); and Dorothy Lannon, his longtime friend and literary associate; in Washington, D. C. Died. Clement E. Chase, 45, bridge engineer, partner of famed Bridgebuilder Ralph Modjeski; when, rocked by a gust of wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin...