Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most valuable of Hills & Youngberg's contributions to the canal cause was Engineer George B. Hills himself, who also happened to be the New Deal's dispenser of patronage in Florida. Last August when the canal project seemed virtually dead, Politician Hills took 60 canal boosters to Washington. There they buttonholed Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, a Jacksonville man who up to that time had shown no great enthusiasm for a canal across his State. In a tight political spot...
...Municipal Courts he earns $227.69 per week. David M. Zwanziger of Queens Borough is a 37-year-old engineer, a graduate of the College of the City of New York and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, who knows five languages. For months he had earned nothing until, last August, he got a WPA job as construction engineer at $35.77 per week...
...Peoria in the heart of the corn belt. Corn Products Refining Co. uses the corn to make Karo Syrup. The American Distilling Co. uses it to make Old Colony Gin. The American Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last...
First notable, prodigy was big-eared, bespectacled Lewis Anthony Dexter, offspring of two Ph.D.'s, pride of a Kendal Green, Mass. Progressive school. He scooted through Chicago in 17 months, grabbed his A.B. last March on his way out. That record stood until August when a 35-year-old Chicago housewife, Mrs. Martha Friedman Marenof, graduated in 16 months, a Phi Beta Kappa...
...that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press for its interest in his 77th birthday...