Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young firms as Aarons & Freedley (Girl Crazy), Schwab & Mandel (America's Sweetheart), Green & Gensler (Fine & Dandy), oldtime Producer Hammerstein's shows seemed to grow poorly and more poorly. His first play of this season, Luana, during the rehearsals for which he got hurt in a fight (TIME, Aug. 11), was a failure. His second show, Ballyhoo, was taken over after a two-week run by Funnyman W. C. Fields and the cast. Philosophical about his losses, 54-year-old Producer Hammerstein said last week: "When Mayor Walker comes back I will ask him to take the statue...
...week, did not even mention fat Tobey Wendel. The family fortune, estimated at $100,000,000, gave bequests to family friends and retainers, to charities and religious bodies, following closely the will of Miss Ella's sister, Mrs. Rebecca A. D. Wendel Swope, who died last summer (TIME, Aug. 4). Flower Hospital received its expected share (but its officials scouted the leg-setting story); and the famed old Wendel house went to Drew Theological Seminary, whose onetime president, Dr. Tipple, was an old family friend...
Speech, Speech. While he was at it, Judge Duff made one of the longest and least exciting Speeches from the Throne that Canada has ever heard. The Bennett Government (whose members, of course, wrote the speech) did so well at the election last year (TIME, Aug. 11), that they can sit back with impregnable parliamentary strength, lofty and vague...
...happy. She and her sisters Augusta, Josephine, Mary, Georgiana were dominated, kept from marrying by Brother John Gottlieb Wendel III. Rebecca, a sixth sister, eluded his tyranny, married Professor Luther A. Swope. But when Professor Swope died she returned to hermitage with her sisters. Last year she died (TIME, Aug. 4) and her will left most of the fortune, after Sister Ella's death, to charities and religious bodies...
...Detroit at the trial of Ted Pizzino, Joe Bommarito and Angelo Livecchi for the murder of Radio Announcer Gerald E. ("Jerry") Buckley (TIME, Aug. 4), a juror complained that he could not hear the testimony because of the popping of photographers' flashlights. Judge Edward J. Jeffries chided him: "Please be patient. The safety of the administration of criminal law is publicity...