Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City of New York. Into his job with its full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for more than 30 days loses his office. Mayor Walker sailed for Europe Aug. 3. If Mayor McKee were not a reliable Tammany Democrat, he could turn the Municipal government topsy-turvy before Mr. Walker returns late this month, gets back the job to which he was elected...
...physician. Dr. William Schroeder Jr., who is also his Commissioner of Sanitation, ordered him to "Europe for "rest." As a by-product of the trip, the Mayor and his Commissioner would inspect foreign garbage plants, get pointers to improve the New York system. Together they sailed on the Bremen Aug. 3. Soon began a typical Walker "rest" junket-a series of wisecracks, banquets, beer parties, clothes, flowery speeches, songs, night clubs and general gaiety which completely eclipsed the efforts of the other 21 mayors to have...
...half of the loan. Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance, flew to Paris and arranged details of the other $200,000,000 with the Bank of France. None of this money will be used to pay off the $243,000,000 which was loaned Britain on Aug...
Just how the little brown man justified his sudden haste to join the meeting, after turning stubborn at the last moment fortnight ago and refusing to sail with his colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little...
...Federal Reserve Bank; and Hamilton Robinson, of Princeton, N. J. Wedding date: Sept. 12. Two months ago her brother, Everett Needham Case, married Josephine Young, only daughter of Owen D. Young (TIME. July 6). Last month Mr. Young's third son, Philip, married Faith Adams of Washington (TIME, Aug...