Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philip Plant, became a Pathe cinema star, was recently borrowed by Warner Brothers at the largest salary ($300,000 for ten weeks) ever paid a cinemactress. Joan, youngest daughter, acted on the Manhattan stage in Jarnegan, was selected by John Barrymore as his leading woman in Moby Dick (TIME, Aug...
...McKelvie, who racked his brains over these questions last week, is the latest man drafted by President Hoover to complete his Federal Farm Board (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929). No wheat-grower, Mr. McKelvie publishes the Nebraska Farmer. Grumblers call him a "political farmer." Aged 50, staunchly conservative, Publisher McKelvie opposes the equalization fee, opposes debenture, urges the farmer to help himself...
...resolute girl, as King Edward was a resolute man. In King Edward's case, after ignoring his appendix as long as was humanly possible, he found himself at the very last moment unable to be crowned. His Coronation was postponed, took place two months later on Aug 9, 1902. Last week Miss Dawes, luckier than King Edward, was able to advance upon Their Majesties, curtsey to the King, curtsey to the Queen, and retire in good order. Next day her appendix was removed by Sir Crisp English, operating at the U. S. Embassy in Princes Gate. So successful...
...Last week he was succeeded by Mayor-Elect Howard Wilkinson Jackson. †According to Who's Who the Bakers were married Aug. 7, 1910. *Mayor Porter exhibited ignorance. The 18th Amendment does not forbid drinking of liquor legally acquired...
...gunman to shoot Siemel's brother in the back; he was a long time dying. Siemel is now with his friend, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff on the Matto Grosso Expedition in Brazil, making a cinema of jungle life and taking animals alive for the Chicago Fair (TIME, Aug. 25). He was planning the cinema when he was with Duguid. He was also planning something else. Said he: "When I have finished my film I ... shall find that man and I shall take him aside and I shall shoot him in the stomach. That should give him a good...