Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From p. 42, TIME, Aug. 10: "Two athletes who recently competed in European track events as women were later transformed into men by sex operations." Do you really enjoy being inexact, indefinite and absurd all in one sentence...
...miner's cap of John Lewis. Last fortnight the long brawl between the A. F. of L. and his C. I. O. came to a head with the Federation's Executive Council demanding that C. I. O. disband within 30 days or be suspended (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Miner Lewis did exactly what every one expected, flatly and finally refused to disband, ordered his 500,000 miners to contribute $1 each for Roosevelt's reelection, sailed for Europe...
...Whitehall this was considered double-barreled insolence on the part of Herr von Ribbentrop, for Sir Eric Phipps is the brother-in-law of the Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, brilliant Sir Robert ("Van") Vansittart. Recently Sir Robert went on vacation to Berlin (TIME, Aug. 10). Few days later he conferred with Adolf Hitler. Last week Joachim von Ribbentrop was appointed German Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...served under several of King Alfonso's Cabinets and is supposed to have the most Monarchist leanings of any commander in the Revolution, continued his refusal to have anything to do with Alfonso XIII's heir Prince Juan, whom he recently sent packing out of Spain (TIME, Aug. 17). The exiled King, who is at pains to keep repeating that he never abdicated, was at Dellach in Austria for the mournful second anniversary last week of the death of his youngest son, Gonzalo, in a motor accident. Said he: "I am in deepest mourning over the events...
...Hotel Washington Irving in which six U. S. tourists were staying. Only Spaniards were killed. One, an expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining, General Queipo de Llano sent from Seville a giant German Junkers transport, escorted by a scouting plane. This outfit safely evacuated Granada's U. S. tourists, flying them to Seville, whence they jounced...