Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August C. Helmholz, 2d, '36, and James J. Thackarn '36, seeded fourth, won the University doubles tennis tournament by defeating Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, and Sumner Rodman '35, seeded third, 6-2, 6-4, in the finals played indoors at Brookline...
...trouble began last August when Governor Gore was quoted as saying that all officials whom he might appoint would have to present undated resignations in advance (TIME, Aug. 28). This the Liberals considered an unprecedented insult to Puerto Rican dignity. Antonio R. Barcelo, politically ambitious president of the Liberal Party, promptly withdrew his list of suggested candidates, went into full opposition to the Gore regime. Governor Gore said he had never actually requested any undated resignations, accused Dr. Barcelo of circulating the story as a poli ical subterfuge. Dr. Barcelo's answer was an editorial in his La Democracia...
...though John Stockholder could afford to grin at most of these reports he saw last week another set of reports, not of what business had been like in July, August and September but of what it had fallen to last week...
Samuel Ungerleider, onetime liquor wholesaler, retailer and rectifier, member of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider, resigned to become president of Distillers & Brewers Corp. of America, $7,500,000 liquor holding company formed last August. After Jan. 1 the firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider will be Fenner, Beane...
Amelia Earhart Putnam and Paul Collins, who formerly helped operate Ludington Lines between New York and Washington, made a deal last August with Boston & Maine Railroad. The railroad opened an airline between Boston, Portland and Bangor, Me., hired Mrs. Putnam and Mr. Collins to run it for them as National Airways Inc. The company thrived well enough to interest the neighboring Maine Central Railroad and Central Vermont Railway which run into New Hampshire and Vermont. The difficulty of surface travel made air service logical, but would there be enough patronage? National Airways hit upon a simple scheme. Let local boosters...