Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political wiseacres. For months quidnuncs have been privately intimating that the Roosevelt Administration was headed into a big patronage scandal. Before Secretary Morgenthau reported to the President last week he called to Washington Internal Revenue Collector Abbott, who also happens to be Demo-cratic National Committeeman from Michigan. Last August National Chairman Farley tucked Committeeman Abbott away into the comfortable berth of an Internal Revenue collectorship. Good Mixer Abbott was able to pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit Free Press began...
Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud...
...going on on the Continent. That is quite untrue. Commander Locker-Lampson has done a great service to Sir Oswald Mosley by the mere fact that this bill was brought in and by the advertisement thus given him. . . . Bill Smith of England is a very different person from August Schmidt of Germany. He won't let anybody walk over him, either in peace or in war." Not one of the 615 members of the House of Commons voted to bring in frightened Commander Locker-Lampson's bill...
...Advisers to the Expedition are: Professor Joseph Barcroft, Cambridge, England; Dr. Hellinut De Terra, Yale University; Lawrence J. Henderson, professor of Biological Chemistry; Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology; Professor August Krogh, Copenhagen University; Professor Alfred Redfield, Harvard University; Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke, Rockefeller Institute...
Awarded. To President James Bryant Conant of Harvard: the American Institute of Chemists Medal. To Samuel Seabury, Mrs. August Belmont. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard Medical School): gold medals of the National Institute of Social Sciences. To Alden Hopkins of Rhode Island State College and Harvard School of Landscape Architecture : the Prix de Rome in landscape architecture...