Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benjamin Franklin bequeathed part of his estate to Boston for 200-year investment, to be loaned to "young married artificers" who faithfully served their apprenticeships. Changed economic conditions have limited the practical usefulness of the Franklin fund, now worth about $458,000 (TIME, Aug...
Statesman Mo. Statesman Stimson tried, failed two years ago to make peace between China and Russia by invoking the Kellogg Pact (TIME, Aug. 5, 1929). Ignoring him, Chinese and Soviet statesmen made their own peace at far away Habarovsk on Soviet soil (see map). But this peace has been followed by a host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with...
Wherever Thomas Ross, famed carrier-pigeon expert (TIME. Aug. 11), went, his old brown bird Arthur was indisputably king of the roost, for Arthur had a didactic turn of mind. Expert Ross joined the Army to train its Signal Corps pigeons. When he was transferred from Philadelphia to Fort Monmouth, N. J., it took Arthur some two years to get used to the change. But when he did consent to rule the Fort Monmouth roost, Arthur astounded the signalmen. He would help them teach a flock of young "squeakers" to home, by swooping down and herding the novices...
...very intense or violent earthquake, as earthquakes go. It was not as intense, for instance, as the Naples earthquake [TIME, Aug. 4]. The most violent quake in recent history happened a year ago last November when 13 transatlantic cables were destroyed...
...high, wild Matto Grosso country of Brazil, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff's expedition (TIME, Aug. 25) continued last week in quest of live wild animals for U. S. zoos and the Chicago Fair. But after a month at the base camp, their radio had no major news to report except accidents...