Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kansas this week approached her primary elections (August 2) as embarrassed as a family whose freak son is the only one who ever gets his picture in the newspapers. Numerous normal politicians were running for office but the only candidate whose name the rest of the country heard was Rev. Gerald Burton Winrod. He is 39, a grey-eyed, deep-voiced radio spellbinder from Wichita, with black hair like William Jennings Bryan's, an evangelist whose congregation is "the entire United States and Canada." Because it looked last week as though Mr. Winrod might win the Republican nomination...
...Since August 1933, John Wiley Hill and Donald Snow Knowlton, heads of a Cleveland publicity firm, have received $323,000 from the American Iron and Steel Institute and individual Little Steel companies. The La Follette committee produced "personal and confidential" documents revealing the efforts of Edgar S. Bowerfind, Hill & Knowlton representative in Birmingham, Ala., to make local newspapers see the rectitude of Republic Steel Corp.'s position on labor problems. The technique, involving no innovations, consisted of visits to local editors and pressure "judiciously exerted" through advertisers...
...science and scientific philosophy was belied by their size and price (75 pages and 59 pages; $1 each). The title of the first was Encyclopedia and Unified Science; of the second, Foundations of the Theory of Signs. The two are forerunners of 18 more to be published by August 1939. The first 20 pamphlets, comprising two "volumes," are to be the starting point for other volumes. Editor-in-chief of the project is Otto Neurath...
...office, announced that it would be unfair to U. P. & L. stockholders to "pull them out of reorganization on the normal basis of a fair plan and then bump them again with an order under Section nB. . . ." SEC, therefore, would draw up its own plan in hearings beginning August...
...week, it produced 204,000 tons of dissolving pulp, an increase of 50%, about a fifth of the world output. Rayonier's record earnings do not mean that it has not felt Depression II-opening, of its new $8,000,000 mill at Fernandina, Fla., originally scheduled for August, is being postponed...