Word: augured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reliably reported content of the draft treaty as it stands today (subject to minor alterations before it is made public and offered for ratification in London and in Rome) was scooped last week by famed "Augur" (see p. 55). The regular press services soon afterward had it from highest British and Italian quarters. In general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative...
When the Nazis came to power in 1933 some 500 secret police, intelligence men, and agents of the Ministry for Propaganda descended on London, began to check up on Germans living permanently or temporarily in Britain. Last week the New York Times' astute commentator "Augur" estimated that there are 20,000 Germans in London alone-including refugees, businessmen, domestic servants-many of whom have been enrolled willingly or otherwise in various Nazi organizations by such agents as Langen. The organization of domestic servants is so closely supervised that the British Foreign Office has warned its members not to engage...
...world revolution by orthodox Stalinists, asked secretly for what they called the Fourth International. No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris. Most observers, many Communists still belittle the Fourth International, yet last week such a reputable correspondent as "Augur" (Vladimir Poliakoff) of the New York Times was able to write of the ''Free International" as he prefers to call...
Coach Lamar said yesterday that it is still too early to hazard any predictions, but that early indications augur a good season. As usually the case with a Freshman eleven the lineups will undoubtedly shift considerably for the early...
...knew of the assassination of Rasputin so soon after it occurred that the Imperial Police investigated. It was ultimately necessary for the British Ambassador to assure Nicholas II that Sam positively had not had advance knowledge of the deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special writer for the New York Times, cabled that "a daring airman, whose nationality cannot be disclosed for the present, has flown over the North Sea at a dizzy height. His mission was to use specially sensitized plates to photograph the movements of the German fleet...