Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arthritic and otherwise broken-down writer of detective tales take issue with the statement under the heading of Art (TIME, Aug. 31, p. 22), that "as far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of a victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
...employers would realize their deep responsibility to take men off the relief rolls and give them jobs in private enterprise. Subsequently I was told by many employers that they were not satisfied with the information available concerning the skill and experience of the workers on the relief rolls. On Aug. 25 I allocated a relatively small sum* to the Employment Service for the purpose of getting better and more recent information...
...pleasure cruise. It had become all but impossible to get a fresh picture of Edward VIII which was not a picture of the King & Mrs. Simpson. At a moment when His Majesty was in fact making Balkan policemen, who seized press cameras, give these back to their owners (TIME, Aug. 31), the London Sunday Dispatch declared that it was not printing any such pictures and would also print no stories from the royal yachting cruise "unless these contain matter of proper national interest-such as the whereabouts of the King...
...Pacification Commissioner of Kwangsi under instructions from Nanking to pacify himself thoroughly and send no more ultimatums. Only logical assumption was that Li had finally got out of Chiang the bribe running into several millions of dollars which has generally been considered the only real point at issue (TIME, Aug...
...Athens a closely guarded limousine swept up to the British Legation and instalked stocky General John M'etaxas, the new Dictator (TIME, Aug. 17). A second car brought King Edward VIII. Over cups of tea the two men talked earnestly for more than two hours. That night Edward and his pleasure-cruising friends were up until 3 a. m. dancing in a simple tavern and open-air cabaret, near Athens...