Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Carolinian by inheritance and don't like to see her slandered by such careless statements as you made in your recent [Aug. 24] article on the joint campaigning of Senatorial candidates. Your statements and inferences on the importance of the Nigger and Republican vote are quite correct as evidenced by the total vote of less than 2,000 for Mr. Hoover in 1932. You are surprisingly fair, for a Yankee publication, when you point out that some Niggers do vote and thus infer that none are denied the franchise...
...TIME, Aug. 24, you state that Harpo Marx broke a 13-year public silence. I think this is a mistake. It is my impression that he addressed the audience in the case of a slight theatre fire in Detroit some years...
...rida, Segorbia, Sigüenza, Barbastro. The Shepherd of Sigüenza was tarred and burned while the Bishop of Jaén was slaughtered along with his aged mother and his sister, in whose corsets had been found 8,000,000 pesetas in Government bonds (TIME, Aug. 10). In Burgos Rebel headquarters, the Archbishops of that city, of Valencia and of Valladolid held a ceremony of reparation in the Cathedral...
...advertise them but thought space rates in the Times and News too high. For some reason, his little Free Press caught the public fancy. Last year it got a real boost when the Times fired Managing Editor William G. Foster to take on Pulitzer Prize Winner Julian Harris (TIME, Aug. 19, 1935). Hired by the Free Press, Editor Foster built up an able staff, last spring brought out a Sunday edition selling for 5?. Last week, the Free Press took the last step to maturity, began appearing weekdays (except Saturday) and Sunday...
...Contact lenses (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930) are thin glass shells which are fitted directly onto the eyeball, are almost invisible when in place. They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons, convenient for athletes. Since the curvature of the eye varies from one individual to another, a lucky fit is necessary for contact lenses to be worn for long periods without irritation. Hence although they have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made...