Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outcome of my own candidacy for the Senate is neither important to the nation nor to me. . . ." (TIME, Aug...
...your issue of Aug. 17 there appears (on p. 18) an article containing comments in connection with the dismissal of the Permanent Secretary of the British Air Ministry which, as regards our client, Sir Eric Geddes, are at variance with the facts as will appear from the following extracts from the official report of the Board of Enquiry recently held in this country...
...Buckingham Palace last week Queen Mary awaited King Edward. Ready for His Majesty too was a multi-volume Scotland Yard dossier pasted up out of clippings to show what the World press thought of the King's yachting trip (TIME, Aug. 17 et seq.). Ready to be promptly received in audience last week was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, just let out of quarantine after passing several weeks at home with chicken pox. Ready were prominent Jewish friends of Edward VIII to exhort him on the subject of the British Expeditionary Force now speeding to Palestine to crush Arab insurgence...
...July 30 the commander of Toledo's new Red workers militia, one Comrade Daniel Ovalle, admitted that the Whites still held the Alcázar, asked whether he should shell it. On Aug. 4 tentatively and one by one at intervals Reds popped 60 4-in. shells at the Alcázar without result, telephoned into the fortress to tell Commandant Moscardó: "We warn you heavier shells will come." On Aug. 11 cadets shot a cavalry mount for meat and mobsters standing at a safe distance shrieked at the military academy: "You fools...
...hold out you can have full revenge on your tormentors. Moroccan troops have instructions not to leave a soul alive in Toledo! They are within nine miles of the city butchering Marxist villagers." This false claim made mirth for the Reds who also guffawed when White Seville broadcast on Aug. 31 the lie that White "Colonel Yague is at the gates of Toledo...