Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve years. I became insolvent. I had to borrow money and to make notes which I have struggled to reduce, and which I did reduce and which some day I'll pay." Announcing that he would contest Senator Harrison's renomination in the August primaries "from hell to breakfast," Senator Bilbo declared, "I'm in the market for a colleague who will have some respect for me." The U. S. Senate showed its feelings in the matter by confirming Judge Holmes's promotion 59-to-4 (TIME, March 30). Mike Conner, on the strength...
Criticized for their penchant for spending vast sums on time-tested Titians and Rembrandts while ignoring living artists, the august Metropolitan's directors have lately begun to take a few chances on moderns. But they do not take very big chances, and last week dazed Rob Godfrey refused to reveal the "very modest sum" the Metropolitan had paid for his portrait. "It might." said sensible Anneliese Godfrey, "cause clients to want to have their portraits done for the same price, or cheaper...
...Manhattan court ordered pink-cheeked, white-whiskered Realtor-Philanthropist August Hecksher, 88, to continue paying plump, blonde Operasinger Frieda Hempel, 51, $15,000 a year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters...
Divorced. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell; by Lydia Pavlovna Kon-doyarov, Lady Deterding, daughter of one White Russian general, ex-wife of another; in The Hague. Grounds: misconduct...
...curious syndicate agreement between Cord Corp. and President Morris Markin of Checker Cab, which Cord controls. This control (64,000 shares of Checker stock) is held by the syndicate, which is a polite word for pool. President Markin's interest in the pool is 6,500 shares. Last August the pool agreement, which has elaborate provisions to keep the two members from chiseling each other, was extended for five years and broadened to allow trading in securities of other taxi or allied companies, including Chicago Yellow Cab and Parmelee Transportation...