Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only his silk-vested and sombreroed courtiers realized how sick a man was King Feisal of Irak last month when, after his soldiers and some fierce border Kurds had massacred 600 Assyrians, he awaited, "in spite of my broken health," the arrival of a British investigator (TIME, Aug. 28). His impatience to leave for a "vacation" in Switzerland sounded, especially in view of his holiday in England only a few weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean...
...Since he took office in July it has become apparent to him as much as to anyone that the New Deal has scarcely touched Education. Last month Commissioner Zook went up to New York, told a Teachers College conference not to expect Federal funds for teachers' salaries (TIME, Aug. 14). Recently he wrote in the Washington Star: "The Depression hit schools later than it did the business community. It will linger with schools longer than with business and trade. This year, therefore, will probably be the most difficult year of the Depression as far as schools are concerned." Though...
...these not more than eight may be canvasback, redhead, scaup, teal, shoveler or gadwall. (Last year's limit on this list, which included ringneck, was ten.) Brant may be shot on the Pacific Coast, not on the Atlantic where their principal food, eel grass, has almost disappeared (TIME, Aug. 21). Cackling geese are unprotected for the first time since...
...Margaret Rose, second daughter of the Duke of York, born Aug...
LAMB IN HIS BOSOM-Caroline Miller- Harper ($2). Many a prize-winning author might be proud to have written such a quiet, unpretentious little masterpiece as Lamb in His Bosom. After reading it, many who also read the Harper Prize Novel (The Fault of Angels, TIME, Aug. 28) may wonder why Lamb in His Bosom did not get the prize, may recall rumors that at least one of the judges (Dorothy Canfield. Sinclair Lewis, Harry Hansen) voted in its favor. Authoress Miller may miss the prize-money but Lamb in His Bosom can get along without any such endorsement...