Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide smile and immense persuasiveness on the rostrum. He hitched EPIC to the New Deal, implied Rooseveltian approval. Too late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo rushed Wartime Propagandist George Creel into the breach. At the primary last August ex-Socialist Sinclair trounced Democrat Creel by nearly 150,000 votes, received a majority over all eight of his opponents, polled the largest Democratic primary vote of any candidate in California history. Democratic registration outnumbered the Republican total for the first time in nearly 60 years...
Such tactics sent a thrill of fear through conservative Californians. Since the August primaries, reported San Francisco financial houses fortnight ago, State, county, district and city bonds have shrunk $50,000,000 in value, with State bonds showing a 6% decline, while bonds of Missouri dropped 1½%, bonds of Illinois less than 1% in the same period...
Published in August by Macmillan, New York, the work deals with the reign of Phillip the Prudent, under whom Spain reached its peak and began its decline, thus bringing to a close the history of the Empire at home and abroad from its beginning to its downfall under Phillip...
Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
...plunged to even money. Forthwith the stocks of six big California enterprises listed on the New York Stock Exchange sloughed off $60,000,000 in total value in one day. The market value of the securities of California's three leading utilities has dropped $100,000,000 since the August primaries when Mr. Sinclair was nominated. A list of 20 California stocks (including preferreds) has dropped 16% in the last five weeks...