Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Permit me, as an Englishman, to reply to the letters regarding War Debts, in your issue of Aug. 22. My remarks have no application to the debts due other than by England to America. I know of only two methods of paying debts: viz. by gold or by goods (including services). The latter method has been extended by some of your correspondents to include land. England cannot pay in gold, because her gold supplies are negligible. Mr. Andrews accuses TIME, of saying that in 1931 Great Britain produced five-sevenths of the world's gold. TIME "said...
...Aug. 29, 1916 a sudden West Indian hurricane and tidal wave smote the south shore of Santo Domingo, drove the U. S. S. Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...
...Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Once she was called the world's richest woman. But cancer makes no distinctions. Two years ago she had a growth removed from her breast. It reappeared in her liver. When she moved to the Drake from her mansion on Lake Shore Drive in June (TIME, Aug. 1), she and her doctors knew the end was near...
...they might not be filled at all. The blockade of revolutionary forces in the great Brazilian coffee port of Santos by the Federal Government was threatening the chief source of U. S. coffee. Slipping out after the blockade was established, the last coffee boat from Santos docked in Manhattan Aug. 4 with 13,200 bags aboard...
...Nation for Aug. 17 appeared the following advertisement: "TO LET, on club property adjacent to a large nudist park, a five-room stone bungalow, completely and attractively furnished. Tenant or lessee must be qualified for, and desire, membership in the nudist club which owns the large wooded, surrounding estate, distance two and one-half hours by train from New York City...