Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago oratory, Nominee Landon appeared in Cincinnati next morning to furnish more proof of his growing self-confidence. At the station to meet him was his favorite Cincinnatian and prized adviser, bright young Charles P. Taft II, leader in the city's Charter reform movement (TIME, Aug. 3). After shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone set up for the occasion. Guessing the Nominee's intention, and well aware that the Charterites, now allied with local Democrats, were anathema...
...Russian enthusiasts for Bolshevism? In this doubly paradoxical dilemma a suave British finesse and a crude Russian demarche had been prepared, ready to be sprung when there met in the British Foreign Office last week the 27 members of the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain (TIME, Aug...
...masses." Therefore last week the World proletariat was startled, to say the least, when Sovie Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky accused Prisoner Radek of "political and legal guilt" in connection with the alleged plot against Dictator Stalin. Because of the same "plot" 16 Bolsheviks were recently shot (TIME, Aug. 31), the most prominent being Lenin's old comrades Zinoviev (né Apfelbaum) and Karnenev(né Rosenfeld...
...Holy Roller" variety, the "gift of tongues" has long been vivid reality. In recent years the taking up of serpents has gained equal favor. Two years ago in Sylva, N. C. a rawboned mountaineer named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley...
Piccadilly Jim (TIME, Aug. 31), was the first of Author Wodehouse's books to receive adequate screen adaptation. That the cinema has never properly utilized his work is a misfortune which may soon be corrected. Five years ago, after his first professional visit to Hollywood, Author Wodehouse expressed remorse for having "cheated" his employers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) by accepting $104,000 for a year's work which consisted of "touching up" two stories. Last week, accompanied by Mrs. Wodehouse, two Pekinese, and a new typewriter to replace the 25-year-old one on which he had written...