Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town of Düsseldorf, Nazi musical authorities opened a Reich Music Congress, attended by musical big& little-wigs from all over Germany. Outstanding event on the program was an exhibition of "degenerate music" patterned after the exhibition of "degenerate art" that drew throngs in Munich last summer (TIME, Aug. 2). Scheduled for the pillory were compositions by Atonalists Schönberg, Berg and Hindemith, jazz, theoretical and critical writings by Jews and modernist sympathizers...
With his first novel, Slim (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), a story of the linemen who string high-voltage transmission lines, Author Haines, himself a lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...
...heart-reunion of 8,000,000 U. S. Methodists into one great church. In less than three years, Northern Methodists, Methodist Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing at 66, contemplating retirement. Bishop Ainsworth urged Southern laymen to give their final, necessary approval to the merger. He also issued a sharp statement...
...long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason for last week's celebration was Big Dick's 25th anniversary as headmaster. Biggest news was his report on the success of the "Richards plan," which he started at Lake Forest eight years ago (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930) and which has since been copied in many another school...
...Tokyo in spite of the suggestion from China's absentee delegate (C. T. Wang, Ambassador to the U. S.) that no country at war be permitted to play host; 2) because of excessive summer humidity and heat in Japan the date of the games was changed from Aug. 25-Sept. 8 to Sept. 21-0ct. 6; 3) women will continue to take part in Olympic games, despite objections that some women athletes have in the past quite suddenly and surprisingly become men after the games; 4) bids for the 1944 games had been made by London, Helsingfors, Athens...