Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 31 under the title Army & Navy, subtitle "A. W. O. L.," it is noted that you concluded the article with the statement "The Navy thanked Depression." It is perfectly true that the Navy had only 45 deserters for the fiscal year 1931, but it attributes this record to "selective recruiting" rather than Depression. A deserter is the type of man who hasn't the moral character to live up to his obligations and it cannot be expected of a man of this type to "look before he leaps...
...have read with much interest your article in the Aug. 31 issue of TIME regarding my alleged fishing exploits. Like the report of Mark Twain's death it was somewhat exaggerated. Obviously you have confused me with the other Holmes whose name, like my nickname, is Jay and who is. as I am not, the grandson of the late Charles Fleischmann (yeast). This confusion of our two names is not unprecedented but, as you can imagine, it is annoying...
...been the relief plans advanced this summer to help the South out of its cotton predicament. The Farm Board, loaded down with 1,300,000 bales from the 1929 crop and in no mood for more speculation, proposed that every third row of the crop be plowed under (TIME, Aug. 24). Southern Senators tried to get the Board to buy more cotton, provided growers would promise reduced 1932 planting. The Army was seriously urged to purchase several million bales to use as ramparts about its forts. Conference after conference produced ideas but no action. Newspapers ran "Save-the-South" campaigns...
...save the price of oil that Governor Sterling last month called a special legislative session, drove through a new proration act, closed the gushing East Texas field by martial law, drove up the price of oil from 10¢ to 68¢ the barrel (TIME, Aug. 24). Cotton planters openly wondered why he would not take the whip hand and do as much for them. Their only explanation was that, after all, he is an oil, not a cotton...
...utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he allowed Capone to change his tax evasion plea to not guilty, called the grand jury and ordered it to re-examine the Prohibition evidence with the object of indicting Capone under the Jones ("5 & 10") Law (TIME, Aug. 10 et ante...