Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 22 you stated that the odds in Manhattan are 25 to 1 that the next President of the United States will have in his last name the letters "oover...
Thomas & Marx Sirs: Because your article under the heading Third Parties in your issue of Aug. 8 was so fair, interesting and informative. I think you may be willing to print this letter which combines thanks with slight correction or explanation of certain statements. I should like to let your readers know that by no means do I believe that "the international quality of true Socialism has to be soft pedalled in this country.'' I believe that it has to be carefully explained in language that American workers will understand. Because I am an international Socialist...
...most lowly looking businessmen in the U. S. is the junkman with his knobby old horse and ramshackle wagon, collecting old rags, old bottles, bones and scrap iron. Yet when Junkman Bill Kearns of Chicago died, it was found he had accumulated more than $1,000,000 (TIME, Aug. 15). There are 150,000 itinerant junkmen in the U. S. From their humble beginnings has come the half billion-dollar scrap iron and steel industry. Founded by Russian Jews who swarmed to the U. S. in the last century, it now supplies the steel industry with over...
Force from Washington, he reported Secretary of War Hurley as saying: "It was a great victory. Mac [General MacArthur] is the man of the hour. But I must not make any heroes just now" (TIME, Aug. 8). Secretary Hurley made no such statement. Questioned by newsmen at the White House, he had declared there was "no glory in this deplorable episode, no heroes...
...satisfaction last week. The $65,000,000 load of short-term debt left by Samuel Insull had been lifted from the necks of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas, Light & Coke, Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Commonwealth and Peoples long-term issues had been gobbled up by investors (TIME, Aug. 15); Commonwealth 5½'s had been quickly bid up 5 points above their issue price. A $20,000,000 Public Service issue was marketed early this week. With independent accountants the bankers had been over the books, had found earning power practically unimpaired. Almost unprecedented in recent years were...