Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Morris Sheppard rose in the Senate chamber one day last week. A small, prim man with greying hair and narrow eyes, his greatest claim to fame is being co-author of the 18th Amendment. The happiest, proudest day of his 57 years (30 of them in Congress) "came Aug. 1, 1917 when the Senate wrote national Prohibition into the Constitution. Every Jan. 16 since, all Senate business has had to halt while the "Father of the 18th Amendment" delivered an oration to commemorate the Amendment's effective date...
...French. Italian, Swiss and Dutch bankers representing the Reich's chief short-term creditors announced themselves satisfied that Germany has done her utmost and done well. During 1932 she has repaid, they estimated, nearly 14% of the short-term credits frozen in Germany under the "standstill agreement" (TIME, Aug. 31. 1931) which followed the Hoover Moratorium...
...second I. C. C. consolidation plan (TIME, Aug. 1) as usual left D. & H. in a bad spot, its disposition undetermined. Mr. Loree, with masses of cash on hand, bided his time to begin a frontal attack for his place in the sun. At the 1929 high, 500,000 New York Central shares would have cost D. & H. $125,000,000. At Depression figures Mr. Loree picked them up through J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10.000,000. With the leverage that a 20% interest gives him, he would not have to wait long to fit little D. & H. into...
Swarthy soldiers wearing U. S. uniforms, complete with U. S. eagle buttons, advanced from Bolivia last week to do further battle with Paraguayans in the long disputed, excessively swampy Gran Chaco (TIME, Aug...
...eyes of the public, Congress and Federal Trade Commission, has been the electric light & power business. Three years ago the Trade Commission focused attention on the vigorous propaganda work which the National Electric Light Association, controlled by disgraced Samuel Insull, was carrying on in schools and colleges (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Later the Insull crash threw into bold relief such practices as the looting of operating companies by holding companies, the publication of misleading financial statements and unscrupulous lobbying carried on by certain N. E. L. A. members...