Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pendergast- One of the best machines in the U. S. is that well-oiled engine with which Thomas Joseph Pendergast rules the destinies of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo. Last August this rotund boss got the Democratic nomination for Missouri's seat in the U. S. Senate for one of his boys, County Judge Harry S. Truman. His only obstacle in putting Harry in the Senate was the way stand-pat Republican Senator Patterson kept raking up the five bodies of the victims of Kansas City's year-and-a-half-old Union Station massacre...
...Philadelphia office of strenuous, steel-eyed William Wallace Atterbury, 68-year-old president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, great & good friend of the late Ivy Lee (see p. 34), got wind of rumors that "The General" was critically ill. Since he had a gallstone removed last August, General Atterbury had kept away from his office. For a fortnight he had been cruising off Florida in his yacht Arminia. There the rumors were relayed to him last week. The Arminia put in at Miami, where her master received newshawks on deck, thumped his chest heartily and crowed: "I'm the livest...
...cost the Government $5,000 more to get the statue from the Washington Navy Yard to the Capitol rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...
Karl Hofer, winner of the second prize of the recent Carnegie International exhibition, and August Macke, one of the many talented young artists killed in the war, are far more objective in their approach. They have something of the cold Latin logic in their art and are more interested in the formal than in the emotional possibilities of paint and canvas. Lionel Feininger, with his feeling for design and his ability to catch mood, shows himself one of the most gifted in the array...
Confidence is returning to the manufacturers who, in overwhelming numbers, are comparing the black ink of today with the red ink of many years gone by. ?President Roosevelt at Green Bay, Wis. last August...