Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty, not military, not smartly turned out (a greyish green overcoat and a chromium badge), not paid, but by all odds the biggest, most valuable and most womanly of British female war work units is the Women's Voluntary Service. Their big test came on the morning of Aug. 31, when the Ministry of Health flashed WVS's chief, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, to get the children and invalids out of urban danger spots...
...Soviet capital a much larger guard of honor was sent to the airdrome to greet Herr von Ribbentrop than when he came to sign the Communazi Pact which emboldened Germany to plunge into World War II (TIME, Aug. 28). There was even a Red Army band (there had been none before), but Germany and Russia were not yet good enough friends for it to burst into either the Horst Wessel song or the Internationale. As the German Foreign Minister alighted, as he shook hands with the Soviet greeting committee and paced stiffly along inspecting his honor guard, the band merely...
Into Lhasa, bleak Forbidden City of windswept Tibet, last week a swaying caravan brought home Tibet's "living god." This 14th Dalai Lama, sovereign pontiff of Tibet, a bright, intelligent lad of five named Tanchu, had been discovered in western China (TIME, Aug. 21). Instead of taking him direct to Lhasa, the caravan went some hundreds of miles out of the way to Chungking, China's capital, where an attendant held the button-eyed god aloft before the populace. Thence representatives of the Chinese Government accompanied the caravan to Lhasa...
...place no one wanted to put money was in investments for income. American Tel. & Tel., which had paced the market earlier in 1939 (high $170 1/8) when people wanted the $9 it pays per share, without realizing it wasn't earning $9 a share, lazed at $161 7/8 (Aug. 31 close: $160 7/8); yet it is now earning at the rate of $9 for the first time in two years...
...foreign branch for the home office at Osaka. . . . We don't accept deposits." In Washington, SEC admitted having received the British information on A. Hitler & Co.'s foreign holdings prior to its publication, having used it in checking the registration of a proposed German bond issue (TIME, Aug. 14), now withdrawn. Washington credited A. Hitler, too, with having money abroad: about $1,000,000, mostly from royalties on Mem Kampf...