Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking to prove that the late William Waldorf Astor, Viscount Astor was not expecting to die when he set up a $46,000,000 trust fund in the U. S. Aug. 15. 1919, two months before he died, Attorney John William Davis had Nurse Mary Louise Jeffreys read into the record in Federal District Court in Manhattan last week the Viscount's rules for longevity as penned in letters sent at the time of the trust fund to his grandson, then aged twelve...
Most popular mourner naturally was Governor Gordon Browning, who will appoint Senator Bachman's successor. Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would...
History. Van Wyck Brooks (The Ordeal Of Mark Twain), was $1,000 richer because the judges agreed that his scholarly, readable The Flowering of New England (TIME, Aug. 24) was the historical-work-of-the-year...
...America's almost-forgotten great men. An ably-written, authoritative book, Pedlar's Progress deserves every penny of its $5,000 prize (Little, Brown Centenary), will fit snugly on the same shelf with Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England (TIME, Aug...
...sound, solid flesh is what ample Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands thinks should be on Crown Princess Juliana. From this opinion many a prospective royal suitor of past years differed and so did the jolly Princess, who used to make wry jokes about the thickness of her calves (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Last week portly matrons of The Hague dithered as the Crown Princess returned from her three-month honeymoon radiant and 23 lb. lighter. She and slim, sporting Prince Consort "Benno." who knows his way around Europe's swank pleasure spots, were said on their honeymoon to have...