Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Shipp Aug. 7 Marion, Ind. Hanged &Shot...
...fear of many Laborites that this new panacea will prove an unbeatable vote getter. But fear is not in pallid, crippled Philip Snowden. With the courage of an epileptic or a madman (though he is neither) he defied the Great Powers at The Hague Conference and won (TIME, Aug. 19, 1929 et seq.). Last week he forced the Prime Minister to let him at the Imperial Conference. A speech was announced in which Mr. Snowden was scheduled to tear what the Dominions proposed to tatters. If courage could win for Free Trade the battle was already won?but ballots will...
...Haskell ran into my hand and broke my wrist. His eye hit my fist." Thus last week deposed Showman Arthur Hammerstein concerning a brawl involving himself, Jack Haskell, dancemas-ter for Hammerstein's recent Manhattan musicomedy Luana, and Harold Rand, a chorusman (TIME, Aug. 11). All charges were dismissed. The three grinned, posed amiably for photographers...
There was one very strange thing about this disaster. In similar dirigible wrecks, viz., those of the Shenandoah and the ZR2 (built by England, sold to the U. S.; destroyed over Hull, Eng., Aug. 1921), wind whirled the vessels high before their destruction. In the R-101'S case, the wind and rain seemed to have done the reverse, pressed the ship down to earth, buckled it from above...
...increasing enthusiasm. Orchestral numbers, choruses and solos won high praise last week. Outstanding feature came at the second concert when prodigious Ruggiero Ricci, aged 9, played his violin in Mendelssohn's E Minor Concerto. Because of pending litigation between his parents and his guardian, Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey (TIME, Aug. 11), young Ricci had been forbidden to leave New York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall, but the boy was apparently unmoved by the stir they caused, or by the presence in the front row of his watchful father. With...