Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting he began reading into the record the august name of Taschereau...
...winning summas are: Bachelors of Arts: Edward L. Bassett (Classics); Sydney J. Freedberg (Fine Arts); Bernard German (Biochemical Sciences); Robert C. Hall (Government; August C. Helmholg II (Physics); John B. Hickem (Biochemical Sciences; Harold B. Jaffee (History and Literature); Walter B. Kantack (Romance Languages and Literatures); Wilfred Kaplan (Mathematics); Douglas T. McClay (Mathematics); Robert H. Rawson (Government); David Savan (Philosophy); Herman E. Schroeder (Chemistry); Edward D. Sullivan (Romance Languages and Literature); Robert M. Terrall (English); John A. Thierry (Physics); Francis J. Whitfield (English); Robert L. Wolff (History and Literature). Bachelors of Science: Sidney S. Alexander (Economics and Mathematics); Andrew Kacmareyk...
...reservoirs, dams, levees and spillways throughout the land; and a complementary $272,000,000 bill, sponsored by Louisiana's Overton, for flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed in the history of Congress," it requires payment...
...Louisiana Senate, whose assistant secretary for the past month has been Huey Long's son Russell Billiu, 17, unanimously decided to make August 30, Huey Long's birthday, a State holiday...
Married. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, general managing director of potent Royal Dutch-Shell, divorced last month by Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov, Lady Deterding, on grounds of misconduct: and Charlotte Mina Knack, 38; in Amsterdam...