Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very anxious to know . . ." sarcastically murmured Senator McNary, [whether] we are to follow the leadership of the Senator from Wisconsin. . . . I have felt since the capitulation [on the Court Bill], under the management of our able Vice President that we would probably adjourn ... by the fifth of August. ... I doubt that he [Senator La Follette] spoke the voice of the President...
...Elected to that august senior society of Big Business, the board of directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was S, (for Samuel) Clay Williams, slow-spoken chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). A native Carolinian, Tobaccoman Williams once rendered what President Roosevelt called "devoted, impartial service" on the National Industrial Recovery Board. He fills the vacant seat of the late Banker George Fisher Baker. Some other A. T. & T. directors: U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Southern Pacific's Hale Holden, Lawyer John W. Davis, Boston's Charles Francis...
...Stock, holm Conference of 1925. As at Stockholm, there were no Roman Catholic delegates, and their absence was duly lamented in a welcoming speech by His Grace, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Then the Archbishop's onetime dean, the Bishop of Chichester, told the gathering that Bishop August Marahrens had decided not to come with his German delegation because at the last moment the Government had taken up the passports of the rebellious Confessional section...
...Census Bureau's report last week, U. S. cotton textile mills had absorbed 7,361,700 bales of the South's great cash crop, thereby establishing in eleven months an all-time record for domestic consumption during the twelve-month cotton year from August i to August i. Best previous year: 1926-27, with 7,189,585 bales...
With large ads in 14 newspapers the Ladies' Home Journal last week called attention to an article on syphilis in its August issue entitled "We Can End This Sorrow" by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. It was Dr. Parran who made the U. S. press syphilis-conscious, brought the subject into open discussion this year in newspapers, magazines and books (TIME, April 6 et seq.). The Journal in its ads harked proudly back to pre-Parran days...