Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mysterious Pages Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 28, you publish a letter from Mrs. Charles H. Bassett of London, England, where she states among other things: "In our copy of this week's TIME (Aug. 31) p. 19 & 20 have been deleted by the British censor. To ensure that in future we get our TIME intact we are ordering our issue direct from your circulation office." I have for years subscribed to many foreign papers, including TIME, and never have any of them been censored or deleted. Also, it is quite obvious from Mrs. Bassett...
Died. Mrs. Frances Zioncheck, 57, mother of Washington's late eccentric Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck; after long illness; in Seattle. She died ignorant of her son's suicide (TIME, Aug...
...large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency." It describes Johnson's arrival at Boswell's home, Boswell's delight at his dear wife's consideration for his friend, Johnson's unvaried conversational triumphs, the period from Aug. 14 to Nov. 22, when Johnson started back to England. Johnson's celebrated "bow-wow-way," as Lord Pembroke called it, without which his conversation would seem less extraordinary, appeared conspicuously in almost every one of the 101 days of his stay. Opinions on fornication ("I have much more reverence...
...stock control. The year its new building was finished, N. W. Ayer & Son was converted into a corporation with a stock ownership limited to Ayer officers and employes. Control, how ever, continued to rest in the hands of President Wilfred Washington Fry until his death last summer (TIME, Aug...
...London, but in Manhattan. Joseph Michael Schenck, chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., seated appropriately on a hotel divan between his brother, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and the president of Gaumont-British, Isidore Ostrer, announced a three-way Gaumont deal (TIME, Aug. 3). Nick Schenck's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's production subsidiary, was going to buy one-half of Twentieth Century-Fox's minority interest in the Gaumorit-British holding company. This was to be followed by a complicated reshuffle of shares be tween the Brothers Schenck, Isidore Ostrer...