Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago ordinarily has one or two cases of amebic dysentery a month. Last August the number jumped to 15. The first two cases were traced to the big, popular Congress Hotel on South Michigan Boulevard. Examination of 364 of its food handlers revealed 15 active cases, 11 carriers. One of them was the Assyrian cook thought to have been the source of Chicago's last outbreak of the disease, in 1927. Infected employes were also discovered at the nearby Auditorium Hotel, and two restaurants...
...Episcopal bishops convened last week in Davenport, Iowa for a meeting of the House of Bishops. Large on their docket lay the matter of appointing a new assessor (assistant) to the Presiding Bishop of the church, to succeed Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota who died last August. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had chosen his man and the House of Bishops approved: Bishop Philip ("Phil") Cook of Delaware. A tall, grey-haired, hearty, eloquent churchman, Bishop Cook has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a breezy rector in San Antonio...
Seeking Divorce. Luella Gear Heckscher, musicomedienne (Gay Divorce); from G. Maurice Heckscher, Manhattan realtor, son of Philanthropist August Heckscher. Charge: mental cruelty...
...Mitsui minions (who hate, fear and dodge photographers) : domineering, onetime newspaperman Seihin Ikeda; softspoken, old-fogyish Nagabumi Ariga; diplomatic, democratic Kikusaburo Fukui. It was on this Council's advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors hailed this "largest private benefaction in the history of Japan," they made bold to comment that the House of Mitsui has been "a shining target for resentment against excessive capitalist profits." In Army circles satisfaction...
...February sales of pelts to manufacturers and retailers had reached an all-time low of $1,408,000. Then came an upswing. In May pelt sales were $3,288,000, biggest month's total since October 1931. Road salesmen's summer orders were up 25% to 50%, August retail sales up 50% to 100% from 1932. Rising sharply since June, prices of raw furs last week showed an average gain of some 20%. With fashion strongly in their favor, manufacturers and retailers were prepared for an autumn & winter trade which might reach...