Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirers of former Chief of Staff Peyton C. March will probably descend upon you in force for your omission of his name from the footnote at the bottom of p. 11, TIME, Aug. 9. If he was not a general then both my memory and my encyclopaedia have failed...
...Passed the Jones Sugar Bill to restrict imports of refined sugar from Puerto Rico and Hawaii (TIME, Aug 16), in the face of known Presidential displeasure and sent it to conference...
...Passed, 283 to 75, a second Reorganization Bill-the first passed by the House granted the President six assistants (TIME, Aug. 2)-to create a new Cabinet post, Secretary of Welfare. Sent to the Senate, this bill was not expected to see the light again till Congress meets next January...
...unionists received at Ford Co.'s River Rouge plant last May when they attempted to distribute leaflets, United Automobile Workers, planning to distribute more literature, last fortnight applied for legal protection from the city of Dearborn, were informed that U. A. W. was a "legal nonentity" (TIME, Aug. 16).* Last week, guarded by State police who were on hand at the request of Michigan's Governor Murphy, 800 U. A. W. unionists showed up outside the gates of the Ford plant. It was raining. As Ford workers passed they were handed soggy copies of the U. A. Worker...
...State William Henry Seward-was somewhat inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made by a check on the Treasury signed by Treasurer of the U. S. Francis Elias Spinner, drawn to the order of Russian Minister Edward de Stoeckl and dated Aug. 1, 1868. When Alaska's voteless Delegate to Congress, Anthony Dimond, last week asked permission to transfer the check to Juneau for permanent display in that capital's Historical Library and Museum, General Accounting Office authorities were forced shamefacedly to announce that the historic draft -long since canceled...