Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career of August Adolph Gennerich, born in 1886 in Yorkville, Manhattan's German district, had not up to that time been entirely undistinguished. At the early age of 22 he had found an occupation that admirably suited him, a job as a New York City policeman. On the force he was by turns athlete, motorcycle patrolman, hero. He was cited three times for bravery, once for capturing a earful of bandits who peppered him for a mile and a half with a machine gun until their car overturned. He was also a member of the bomb squad...
Ironside had finished preaching on a circuit ringing Stony Brook, L. I., Asbury Park, N. J. and Winona Lake, Ind., he had written 50,000 words which his secretary finished typing on the last day of August, mailed to the American Tract Society in Manhattan. There a committee representing six different denominations unanimously agreed that Dr. Ironside's treatise was the best of 29 submitted by U. S. ministers and professors in competition for a $1,000 prize offered by Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard, great & meritorious daughter of the late & notorious Jay Gould...
...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...
Last week it was belatedly discovered that Mr. Meehan, far from recovering after his preliminary bout with SEC, had been confined since last August to Bloomingdale Hospital, a sanatorium near Manhattan for the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. On the application of his wife and the advice of two alienists, the 42-year-old broker had been committed by New York Supreme Court Justice William F. Bleakley just before that jurist accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York...
...When Night Descends Edgar Calmer tells what happens when hard-drinking old Tom Dogan, at the end of a hot August day, comes home with $52.50 he has won on a raffle ticket. Since the Dogans have been living on $9.25 a month, this windfall all but tips them off the deep...