Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revizor under its English title last week because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary and police department (TIME, Aug. 25, Dec. 29) to discover a parallel to Gogol's situation: A foppish pipsqueak from St. Petersburg, stranded penniless at a village inn, was mistaken for a tsarist inspector whose coming has been announced and for whom the rascally village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with...
...were three more judges-Amedeo A. Bertini, Louis B. Brodsky, Abraham Rosenbluth- all suspected of contaminating Justice with Money. Prosecutors. First man to bring public attention to New York's unsavory judiciary conditions was Republican U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, who wanted to be governor (TIME, Aug. 25). When Charles T. Grain, New York County's district attorney and a Tammany man, failed to get an indictment in the Ewald case, public opinion demanded that Governor Roosevelt start an inquiry of his own. So an investigation got under way headed by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward...
...light, electric or heat waves, is the ultimate essential. Probably that unknown force cooks or orients the primordial elements into the mutual relations they must have to be "alive." Such is the path of theory on which Dr. Crile, who believes that Life is an electrical phenomenon (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926), has been toiling...
...Published Aug. 10. ∙Published Sept...
...save the Cuban bowl is the mission of Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, smart Manhattan lawyer appointed tsar last summer by the Cuban Growers & American Bankers (TIME, Aug. 18). Last week he was in Amsterdam, determined to save the world sugar industry in his attempt to help Cuba...