Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans, Aug. 9-(AP)-Cotton broke more than $2 a bale here today on selling induced by the Government estimate of 15,593,000 bales for the 1937 crop...
Drafted after the collapse of the Court Plan three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 2), and added as an amendment to a bill previously passed by the House, last week's Court Bill has four main provisions. It enables the Attorney General to intervene in lower-court constitutional cases, provides for speeding such cases to the Supreme Court, permits the temporary reassignment of Federal district judges, limits lower-court injunctive power by requiring decisions from a three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention...
...confreres did not doubt last week. Even less did they doubt that the sensational maneuver by which it had been accomplished was a single-handed display of the Garner political acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner "rodeo" tactics, gathered to congratulate him and each other. Across the chamber, Senator Guffey was still flushed and angry. The Vice President walked over to console him by suggesting jovially that...
...leaders of New York City's four other boroughs, who had selected an opposition candidate in the person of Grover Aloysius Whalen, thus diminishing Tammany's otherwise fair chance of recovering the City Hall held for the last four years by Fusion Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, Aug. 2). Then Leader Dooling died and Tammany Hall perked up. In hope and harmony, expecting that a new Tammany chief would succeed in finding a compromise candidate to replace the two who threatened to split the Democratic vote, Tammany unanimously elected Representative Christopher D. Sullivan, 21 years a Tammany Congressman, to succeed...
...remembrance of these grim events, bells tolled mournfully last week in every Belgian village. It was the 23rd anniversary of Aug. 4. 1914, the day when the first patrol of German Uhlans crossed the Belgian border at Gemmenich. Old Field Marshal Graf von Schlieffen's 19-year-old plan to crush France at a single blow by a wide sweep through Belgium was at last being put to the test. The Treaty of 1839 guaranteeing Belgium's territorial integrity had become a scrap of paper. A four years' holocaust had begun...