Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last August Louisiana's Huey Long called his State Legislature into special session, had it pass 27 dictatorial bills. These gave him such control over the State's election machinery that he could conceivably perpetuate himself and his henchmen in power indefinitely (TIME, Aug. 27). Uneasy on his throne, the Kingfish last month summoned his Legislators again, put through 44 more bills in the constitutional minimum of five days. After that he could hire & fire local police and firemen throughout the State, fix utility rates, impose property taxes, run the State Bar Association, let any of his hillbilly...
...rich and give it to the unemployed." Miss Gould posed for newscameramen, then ushered her callers to the elevator. "You know," said she "I will get 10 for every copy that's sold. Best of her 37 verses. Author Gould likes "When Tomorrow," written on her 14th birthday last August...
...know what a forcing ground for M. P.'s the Oxford Union has been, could find potential U. S. statesmen in the two young men with famed names who headed the Yale Political Union: president. Max Franklin Millikan, '35, son of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; vice president, August Heckscher II, '36, grandson of the Manhattan philanthropist...
...single day, said the advertisement, and had been quietly waiting for the proper time to break the record of $12,000 in one day held by another city. "Imagine our dismay then," continued "The House of Lucky Wedding Rings," "when the news reached us shortly thereafter, that on August 28, 1933, the Slavick Jewelry Co. of Los Angeles, had held a one-day sale which so far surpassed all previous records as to make them look like the efforts of amateurs. The Slavick concern set a mark that astonished the entire silverware industry. They sold $44,000 worth of silver...
...also written numerous articles for such magazines as Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, Forum, Scribner's, and the New Republic, of which he is a contributing editor. Of particular interest was his article "Whose Child NRA," in the August issue of Harper's, in which he demonstrated that the National Industrial Recovery Act, with the exception of Section 7a, was framed by for, and in the interests of big business...