Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Has NO one discovered that the Republicans' new streamlined elephant has its knees bending the wrong way? An elephant's legs are bent in the same manner as you bend yours. The result, as shown in TIME [Aug. 15], gives the impression that the worthy animal is ready to go either way at a moment's notice...
Along the trail of trouble that followed San Francisco's non-union "hot car" of Woolworth school supplies (TIME, Aug. 29), owners of 121 closed warehouses and 35 open but strike-crippled department stores still held out for concessions in new labor contracts, fighting C. I. O. warehousemen and A. F. of L. clerks to a standstill. But San Franciscans were cheered last week by more significant news: Harry Bridges' C. I. O. longshoremen and Pacific Coast shipping line operators at last agreed, subject to rank-and-file approval, to sign contracts promising peace on the water front...
...Senator, sober-sided U. S. District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp of Atlanta, received two last-minute encouragements: the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee declared in Washington that there had been nothing improper about the discharge "for political activities" (against Mr. Camp) of Edgar Dunlap as Atlanta counsel for RFC (TIME, Aug. 29); and the fourth man in the race, Lawyer William G. McRae of Atlanta, withdrew, urging his supporters to vote for Candidate Camp. But these pats-on-the-head were to be Mr. Camp's and Franklin Roosevelt's last happy memories of this Georgia primary...
...words used privately by the President in making up to Senator George after publicly asking for his defeat at Barnesville (TIME, Aug...
...Washington last July, Josephine Roche, former head of Federal health activities, told members of a National Health Conference that the Government proposed to embark on a ten-year public health program, to appropriate $850,000,000 annually for the job (TIME, Aug. 1). Lay delegates heartily approved, but officials of the American Medical Association bitterly objected to "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency...