Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This august candor, of course, quickened the war-scared flight of hoarded gold from London to Manhattan, despite the fact that on arrival it had to be converted into Roosevelt Dollars, with little assurance of possible reconversion into gold and shipment back to Europe later (TIME, Oct. 7). Well might so mad a state of affairs make the Governor of the Bank of England howl, but the Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer is icy Neville Chamberlain, and last week this hook-nosed paragon of Conservatism favored the same London banquet with his stiff upper...
...little sign of a check in our movement toward recovery. . . . Employment . . . is picking up.... Export and retail trades, notes in circulation, bank clearings and bank advances all show substantial increases.... It is only in new capital issues, which were continuously extending up to the end of July, that in August we received a definite check, due doubtless to the situation abroad...
Manager Charles John Grimm was for years the best fielding first baseman in the league. In July, there were rumors he might lose his job. In August he snapped his team out of a losing streak by forbidding them to play poker. For the past three weeks, he has been superstitiously driving a nail into the heel of his shoe before each game. A capable baritone, banjoist and bagatelle player, nephew of Director George P. Vierheller of the St Louis Zoo, Manager Grimm has worried himself from 195 to 175 lb. since April. Last week, his worries partly over...
...campaign for revenge was another problem which last week remained unsolved. One of the few known World Series factors was that this year the Tigers are stronger than they were in 1934. The team has gained confidence and cohesion. A new pitcher, Roxie Lawson, bought by Manager Cochrane in August has pitched two successive shutouts. The team's fielding average is .979 compared to .974 last year. Its batting average is 289, exactly the same as the Cubs . Both the Tigers and the Cubs have topnotch infields. The Tigers have a super-star Hank Greenberg, on first base. Their...
...district of middle-class apartment houses. But with some old parishioners remaining, the old church still maintains an air of conservative respectability. For more than a year Trinity has been looking for a rector. Its vestry scrutinized the qualifications of 60 Episcopal ministers in 16 states. Finally, last August, the vestry issued its call-to a young man who is an enrolled Socialist, a vice president of Consumers' Research, an executive in the Church League for Industrial Democracy. Trinity's rector-elect was once arrested with Norman Thomas for unlawful assemblage at a Paterson, N. J. silk strike...