Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called The New Republic of Letters; a humorous comparison of U. S. and English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James...
...Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. and its Richmond subsidiary, Continental Tobacco Co. Continental had been having trouble distributing a cigaret called Paul Jones (price, 10?) in New England. President Ellis arranged with the United and Schulte cigar stores and Liggett and Whelan drug stores to display Paul Jones (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Then he inserted in New York, Philadelphia and Boston newspapers a single advertisement: "20 for 10?. America. . . . Here's your cigarette!" Manhattan sales jumped. By February White Rolls and Paul Jones were producing some 350,000,000 cigarets per month, 4% of the national total...
...editorial staff, was better known as one of England's mightiest oars. Aged 31, Authoress Lehmann is married to Arlist Wogan Phillips, nephew of towering Lord Kylsant who spent the past year in jail for malfeasance in connection with the affairs of the Royal Mail Line (TIME, Aug. 12, 1931 et seq.). Like Infant James she lisped in numbers, still prefers verse to prose but is refreshingly reticent about publishing her verses...
...rations. The faculty would receive for pay only their room & board. Total cost of attendance would come to only $250, whereas $350 or $400 would be a low fee in an established institution. Like the students and faculty at Commonwealth College in Arkansas (where the fee is $120-TIME, Aug. 29), Port Royalites would clean up their rooms, wait on table, wash dishes, help restore some of the ramshackle buildings...
Thus did the Providence Gazette & Country Journal for Aug. 21, 1790 report George Washington's visit to the city and to Rhode Island College, now Brown University. Illuminations were a specialty among the Brown students; they loved to burn candles, especially at Commencement when as many as eight candles would glimmer in each of old University Hall's 178 windows. But candle-burning seemed dangerous and in 1827 Brown's President Francis Wayland put a ban upon it. No use for students and alumni to protest by burning a tar barrel on the campus; their president rushed...