Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar quota and tax loophole bills the only major items left on the calendar, the end of one of the hottest, hardest summers in Senatorial history was last week finally in sight. Said delighted Leader Barkley: "I think we can safely say now that we will adjourn August 21 at the very latest...
...Zola, in time, come great fame, wealth, position and what he takes for contentment. Some years later, the young radical has become a fat and fussy literary lion. His greatest satisfaction is no longer tilting at literary and political windmills but the prospect of election to the august French Academy. While Cezanne, after dinner one night, is telling Zola that his head is as overstuffed as his stomach, L'Affaire Dreyfus is having its beginnings. The General Staff of the French Army, discovering that someone has been selling military secrets to Germany, looks around for a scapegoat, finds...
...radio performers which Equity still kept under its thumb. I Last week the actors in this quiet little drama emerged from the wings to play their parts on Unionism's stage. What precipitated the show was the simple fact that entertainment had gone a long way since that August night in 1919. Stage performers were now a distinct minority in show business. Not only had the Screen Actors Guild twice as many members as those on Equity's books. All over the land were radio actors who six weeks ago opened up an active membership drive...
...Petrillo's plan, gave a special committee 30 days to prepare the attack. Last week President Weber called representatives of radio, cinema and record companies to deliberate with A. F. of M. officials in Manhattan, made sure they would come by threatening a nation-wide musicians' strike August 14 in case the parley failed...
...background of the sale to start a first class Missouri scandal. The Board of Fund Commissioners' official explanation of Baum, Bernheimer's third big bond purchase was that the State Bi-Partisan Advisory Board had recommended "immediate" sale of the bonds to pay for July and August construction work at State prisons, that a public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware of this "immediacy" since last November. Since then, said he, the Commissioners had "kept putting off and putting off" the bond...