Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than one opposition Senator suspected that President Roosevelt had tossed the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty into the Senate at this time to give that august debating society something innocuous to quarrel over and thus keep itself out of serious mischief while waiting for the House to whip through the President's domestic program. Most of last week, therefore, the Senate was kept busy talking about this pact with Canada. The substance of the debate was inferior to its manner. Most politely vociferous opponent of the treaty was Illinois' aging, asthmatic Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who wore...
Engagement Broken. John Jacob Astor III, 21, great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor I, heir to $3,000,000 last August; and Eileen S. S. Gillespie, 18, Manhattan debutante (TIME, Dec. 25). Reason: undisclosed. They were to have been married...
...Elected a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Chairman Paul D. Cravath promptly put Director Sarnoff on the executive committee to ponder the Met's problems along with Otto Kahn, Myron Charles Taylor and Mrs. August Belmont...
...opinion of the Rockefeller methods. Then the opinion came from a capitalist who is almost as old as John D. Sr., and almost as philanthropic, who also found his fortune beneath the earth (zinc) and also ploughed a large part of it into midtown Manhattan. Pink-cheeked little August Heckscher put his protest in the form of a $10,000,000 suit against Rockefeller Center Corp., its officers, directors, backers and builders...
Whether Something is or is not in & around Loch Ness had by last week become almost a national issue in Great Britain. Dwellers around the lake began seeing Something several years ago, but they kept their mouths cannily shut until last August. Then all Britain began to hear stories of the monster that made Loch Ness its home. New witnesses came forward daily. People wrote letters...