Word: auguste
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...sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded the August market break by only a few weeks. Thus Depression II may be linked to the current sunspot downgrade. But no temporary outburst of sunspots was reported to accompany last week's ebullient stockmarket...
When the first session of the 75th Congress adjourned last August, Franklin Roosevelt pointedly omitted to thank the members for their 229 days of work. They had killed his Supreme Court bill. They had left undone many things he thought they ought to have done. He called them back for a special session in November. Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress...
Since the appointment was obviously temporary, observers began speculating. Then they remembered. On August 9, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey will run for renomination in the Democratic pri-mary against former Lieutenant Governor Charles Sawyer. If Governor Davey is defeated, the board of trustees, four of whose seven members he appointed, at a scheduled meeting on August 17 might pluck him the job as Ohio State's president...
...Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...
...himself, assailed Great Britain's "twittering little protests," demanded "since when has the British lion been like that?'' In court for misbehavior on a public highway were: Harvard's President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, who had his Massachusetts license permanently revoked after two accidents last August, sued for $35,000 damages; Peter G. Lehman, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who paid a $2 fine for improper parking; German-American Bundleader Fritz Kuhn, who was fined $2 for driving across a white line on Manhattan's Queensboro Bridge...