Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week was out were to be handed a bill to dilute the power of the honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise Senator Borah, who had just stood up for the Court, Attorney General Cummings whom the Justices have often worsted, and several gentlemen who, although the august Justices did not know it, might soon be their colleagues, notably Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed and Lawyer Donald Randall Richberg. Few of the guests had suspected that there was any special reason for the President's good humor, that within three days he was to shake his guests...
...German wines but also best Scotch whiskey. Intimate are the Hohenzollern grandsons of Wilhelm II with the von Ribbentrops; intimate too are many radical Nazi party members of the tough type who ordinarily do not get on with bemonocled German bourgeoisie and intimate are von Ribbentrop and Hitler. Last August, when von Ribbentrop's appointment as Ambassador was announced, he had been running for two years in Berlin an amazing personal suite of offices which was known as Das Büo Ribbentrop. He then reputedly gave orders to Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath. It was said that...
...Accomplishments by secret servicemen of various Great Powers in committing political murders from time to time with great neatness were well described in Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
Married-Augusto Rosso, 51, Italian Ambassador to Russia since August, once (1932-36) to the U. S.; and Mrs. Frances Wilkinson Bunker, Washington divorcee; in Paris. Witnesses were U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt and Italian Ambassador to France Vittorio Cerrutti...
...experiment for at least a two year period, is to enable the scholarship committees of the participating universities to sift and classify their scholarship candidates at an earlier date than has been possible before. This will allow the College to make their decision in May or June, instead of August, and those who miss an award will thus have time to make alternate plans...