Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Thomas Thompson, 28, a Maryland farm boy who served one cruise with the Navy, was in the summer of 1934 jobless and spending his time in a small, disreputable park near the San Pedro, Calif, waterfront. There one hot August evening he made the acquaintance of plump, soft-spoken Toshio Miyazaki, who had learned excellent English as an exchange student at Stanford University, had later been assigned to his country's Intelligence Service. Toshio Miyazaki offered to put Harry Thomas Thompson in the way of earning some money. The job, at $500 per month, plus expenses and bonuses...
...July 4 shutdowns, reporting: "Heavy consumer buying from a number of sources is admittedly prompted by fear of labor trouble (see p. 16) as well as by higher third-quarter prices. . . . It cannot be denied that a large proportion of production during June has been borrowed from July and August...
Aging Actress Maxine Elliott, 63, friend of the late King Edward VII, whose villa on the French Riviera was nicknamed "The House of Lords," had it house-cleaned to entertain members of the suite of King Edward VIII, His Majesty now intending to spend August next door in the villa of Lord Cholmondeley (pronounced "Chumly...
Lash's victory-under conditions that made his time equivalent to at least three seconds less on a board track indoors- gave the U. S. a potential winner of the 5,000-metre race at Berlin next August. Trackmen who saw it last week rubbed their eyes, spoke of "The best race-all things considered-ever...
...diplomacy or administrative policy dictated the Pope's latest appointments, which bring the cardinalate to the unprecedented number of 68, two less than full strength. Cardinal-elect Mercati, 69, and Cardinal-elect Tisserant, 52, both come from that august treasure-house of learning, the Vatican Library, of which Pius XI (as Monsignor Achille Ratti) was once prefect and which he still cherishes. Giovanni Mercati is now its prefect, Eugene Tisserant its pro-prefect...