Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAWTHORNE ON PAINTING-Pittman Publishing Corp. ($2). To be published Aug...
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...figure. Firemen and National Guardsmen fell upon the man, pummeled him until the Secret Service identified him as harmless Woody Hockaday, 52, Kansas eccentric who two years ago, shouting "Feathers instead of bullets!" burst a bag of feathers in the office of Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). This time eccentric Hockaday's idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel of wheat, make 60 loaves of bread, sell them for 10? each and a profit of $4.50-which he would...
...Charles Jaynes Jr.'s parents, both preachers in Aimee Semple McPherson's organization, claim he is the world's youngest minister. Ordained last year by the International Ministerial Federation (TIME, Aug. 2), he has preached all over the U. S., drawing 15,000 to a revival in Boston. But he had never solemnized a wedding. He practiced marrying his father and mother, finally got Miss Brinkman and Mr. Hoffman as his first clients. Last week the Hoffmans honeymooned confident that they were legally married, for, as Mrs. Hoffman admitted to vigilant newshawks a week after the ceremony...
...pictures of his first clay models for the Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners about "art" which had no fully-dressed pioneers or Indians in it, only some...