Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week when all the King's Premiers opened their dispatch boxes on the same day and let out all the secret schedules of the twelve bilateral tariff agreements signed among all His Majesty's governments with nine bright red pens at the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference (TIME, Aug...
...widespread suspicion existed that R. F. C. had made this accounting to the country to thwart further publication under the law of its month-to-month activities. When Clerk South Trimble of the House of Representatives released R. F. C.'s July report (TIME, Aug. 29). the corporation's directors were greatly dismayed. Late last month Chairman Atlee Pomerene submitted his August report to Clerk Trimble, begged him to hold it in confidence. "The publication of the July report," wrote Democrat Pomerene to Democrat Trimble, "caused serious embarrassment to a number of borrowers. It gave rise to much unjust criticism...
...Bavaria and the State of Baden began an unprecedented suit before the German Supreme Court, claiming that Chancellor von Papen acted unconstitutionally when he, acting under a decree of President von Hindenburg, suppressed the elected Gov ernment of Prussia and replaced it by an appointed Federal Commissioner (TIME, Aug. I). Obviously this suit, which the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week, will either whitewash Herren von Hindenburg and von Papen or brand them as Constitution-breakers in the eyes of German voters...
...bold lead taken by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain when he offered to holders of $7,500,000,000 worth of 5% British War Loan Bonds the alternative of asking repayment of their money in paper pounds or accepting new bonds paying only 3�% (TIME, Aug. 15). This example. M. Germain-Martin handsomely declared, gave him courage to offer holders of $3,332,000,000 worth of 7%, 6% and 5% French bonds either their money back or new bonds paying...
Half an hour later assassins broke into the home of Dr. Miguel Angel Aguiar, who was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful anti-Machado revolution (TIME, Aug. 31. 1931) and shot him four times. The next day he died. The Government then proceeded with the burial of Speaker of the Senate Dr. Vazquez Bello. But before the funeral, detectives thoughtfully inspected Colon Cemetery where the interment was to have taken place. They found not one but 23 separate bombs planted near the spot marked for Dr. Vazquez Bello's grave, with enough dynamite to blow up the entire...