Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wheat Crop estimate rose from 821,000,000 bu. on Aug. 1 to 838,000,000 bu. on Sept. 1. Last year's harvest of 806,000,000 bu. was productive of this year's price depressing surplus...
...Corn Crop, estimated at 2,800,000,000 bu. on July 1, 2,120,000,000 bu. Aug. 1, had declined to 1,983,000,000 bu. on Sept. 1 as a result of the Drought. This harvest would be the smallest in 29 years. Two months of rainlessness had withered 29% or 817,000,000 bu. of the corn crop, a cash loss of about $775,000,000. The 1930 crop appeared to be 24% less than that...
...Aug. 3, Justice Joseph Force Crater of the New York State Supreme Court was with his wife at their summer home in Maine. It was vacation-time for him; his court would not sit again until Aug. 25. But on Aug. 5 he unexpectedly appeared at his official chambers in Manhattan. A tall, sleek, keen-minded, conscientious jurist, he was jovial off the bench, well-liked by his law students at New York University. He joshed a courthouse reporter about the judiciary scandals local newspapers were reporting, asked lightly: "Who's next?" Aug. 6 he ordered his chauffeur...
...from U. S. District Attorney Tuttle's discovery that Magistrate George F. Ewald's wife had "loaned" $10,000 to Martin J. Healy, leader of the Cayuga Club, a Tammany organization in the 19th city Assembly District, simultaneously with Ewald's recommendation for the bench. On Aug. 8 the County grand jury took revealing testimony (TIME, Aug. 25). Later, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt started State investigations into the Ewald case and into all Manhattan-&-The Bronx judgeships by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward, and by Justice Samuel Seabury for the Appellate Division, a Democrat but an oldtime...
...Detroit, a young, short, slender, redhaired Irishman prepared last week to take over the Mayor's office. He had won the extraordinary election required by the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles (TIME, Aug. 4). The redhaired Irishman was a "dark horse" who entered the race backed by the Hearst-owned Detroit Times, opposed by the Detroit-owned News and Free Press. He was Frank Murphy, 37, recently resigned Judge of the Recorder's Court, onetime Assistant U. S. District Attorney, voluble orator. His friends called him "the Al Smith of Detroit." He polled 106,203 votes. Recalled Mayor...