Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland, on Aug. 6, Sheriff Martin O'Donnell's office received a scrawled anonymous letter: "This is just to warn you that the 2 Bird bros. you have in for bank robbery have it all set to break out at 3 o'clock this afternoon with their pal Widmer. . . ." A special guard was placed around the cells of Frank and Charles Bird, young Missouri desperadoes awaiting trial for bank robbery, and their friend James Widmer who last year escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary. Nothing happened...
...mayor, bumbling Senator Royal S. Copeland, on the Democratic ticket. Therefore, besides entering Dr. Copeland in the Democratic race against the smiling Irish face of Judge Jeremiah Titus Mahoney. Tammany entered Dr. Copeland in the Republican race against the city's explosive little reform mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia (TIME, Aug...
...press until it could be scanned by Premier Mussolini. To most observers it was obvious that British Foreign Secretary Eden, who hates and scorns Il Duce, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who wants to make friends with the Italian Dictator with whom he exchanges friendly personal letters (TIME, Aug. 9), were continuing to work at somewhat ludicrous cross purposes-except that the big job of starting Anglo-French naval cooperation had been accomplished, looms this week as a great white plume in the helmet of Democracy...
...This move smacked of Mr. Chamberlain rather than of Mr. Eden. It amounted to scuttling almost the whole apparatus of Non- Intervention set up and maintained because Britain and France have insisted that this offered the best means of confining the war to Spain and minimizing its horrors (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936 et seq.). In newsorgans throughout the world the fact that Non-Intervention was being scuttled passed almost unnoticed amid the blaze of headlines about preparing to hunt pirates. Supposing, however, that the pirates should now simply decide not to play pirate any more in view of the forces...
...hailed by virtually all 1,600,000 Salvadorians for his tightfisted economies during his six-year regime. He led off with a martyrlike 50% slash in his salary, has closed some foreign consulates temporarily, quit, the League of Nations in the struggle to balance the budget (TIME, Aug. 23). With coffee about 80% of her exports, agricultural El Salvador depends for its revenues on a favorable foreign trade balance. Chief coffee customer is Germany. While crying for cash, El Salvador has instead been stuffed with German hardware, cotton textiles through the bludgeoning barter methods of Reichs-banker Schacht. No gold...