Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each member agreed to sell 40% of his common stock holdings. If the whole 140,000 shares are sold, the members will divide $980,000 and still have 210,000 shares, for which the offering price is $8.75 per share. Appropriately, the stock was being sold last week by August Belmont & Co., founded in 1837 by the same precocious young German who became President of The Jockey Club, gave his name to New York's Belmont Park...
...Aldrich the jitters every time they think about it. And, through the mysteries of central banking, excess reserves are about to take another rise as a result of the payment of the Bonus, the Reserve Board estimating that the total will be about $3,400,000,000 by mid-August. This will be merely a delayed rise, since the real cause of mounting bank reserves is the flow of foreign gold...
Acting Postmaster General for August, September and October will be First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, a rotund, nervous man who bounces when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born...
Sirs: All kudos to Eurich and Wilson for the Current Affairs Test in the magazine for June 29. I hied myself straightway to this town's first TIME-booster, Author August W. Derleth, candidly hoping to catch him with little better than a college average. Despite the fact that he is revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth...
...very much under political clouds, with far from spontaneous cheers by Conservative M. P.'s of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! Afterwards the Tory Party whips whispered to their cheering parliamentarians that Stanley Baldwin will not actually resign before he leaves Britain for his usual August vacation in France...