Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operative Editors Sirs: In TIME (Aug. 3) one F. B. Griffith of Alexandria, Minn., in writing upon a co-operative meeting at Glenwood, Minn., says in part...
...Great Drought. Those days were memorable. His progress was like a triumphal procession. Uninvited thousands drove miles across the blistered plains to hear him speak. And, like a miracle, within a few hours of his passing through those dull, dun, desiccated lands, showers followed, then drenching rains (TIME, Aug...
...days before President Roosevelt put all first, second and third-class postmasterships under the Civil Service (TIME, Aug. 3), declared the Journal, Postmaster General Farley called for an examination of new applicants for the West Point job under the old rules, which permitted appointment of anyone of the three top candidates. Hopping mad, the Journal editorialized thus about Miss Harrington...
...achieved in the North by the simple process of passing laws guaranteeing Blacks the right to demand admission to all theatres, hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, etc. New York, Illinois and Ohio have long had such laws against Jim Crowism. Pennsylvania got one when Democratic Governor Earle took office (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). But nowhere, as most intelligent Negroes admit, art: such laws consistently enforced against the strong but silent sentiment of the White majority opposed to close social contact with Blacks. When a bumptious blackamoor attempts to invoke such a statute, he generally gets more publicity than social satisfaction...
...vacation plans were announced by the King who fortnight ago canceled his summer lease on the $350,000 villa on the French Riviera of Actress Maxine Elliott (TIME, Aug. 3). He turned last week to the "Richest British Widow," Lady Yule, whose husband Sir David ("The Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left some $100,000,000 to her and Daughter Gladys. To King Edward, Lady Yule leased her $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin (an Indian name meaning "Fleetfoot...