Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, has nothing to do with processing taxes," the onetime cavalryman snapped back, "but as to the effect of codes, the situation is the reverse of that pictured in the Board's statement. Practically every major industry has been operating under a code since August. . . . With the exception of the steel industry, every report we have received from major industries shows a definite upward trend." Dr. Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, the Federal Reserve's chief researcher and statistician, was treated to a telephone tirade by General Johnson who subsequently announced that Dr. Goldenweiser admitted the Reserve's statement...
...said, "is of utmost strategic importance. The combative efficiency of the soldier is at least doubled when he can recuperate in comfort." Ergo, nearly every pillbox is equipped with electric lights, electric stove, a well, beds, running water and glistening latrines. On his visit to the forts last August Premier Daladier cried: "The shield is in place! It is of good metal!" Impressed by the amazing camouflage of many of the forts Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour shook his tousled white head, questioned ecstatically, "The art of War, now more than ever is it not to remain invisible...
...August 1933, Earl Ellicott Dudding, ex-convict of Huntington, W. Va., issued cards inscribed as follows...
...spring there appears on the bulletin boards of University Hall numbers of flamboyant posters proclaiming the joys of education in European universities. They cannot, however, be viewed as anything but a piece of coy irony on the part of the Dean's Office, for the general policy of the august personages therein enshrined has been to surround the transferral of credits from a foreign university with the vast, impenetrable, hyperborean mists of University red tape...
Washington, stormed in upon the Committee and swore that he could produce Mr. Hopson at a hat's drop. Mr. Hopson had merely gone to Bowling Green, Ky. in August, had caught intestinal influenza, had then gone to Chicago "to be with his sister." Last week Mr. Hopson, rotund and smiling, appeared before the Senators, blithely announcing that he had brought a "truckload" of papers for examination. Mr. Pecora insisted that the truckload be carted back to Manhattan to be examined in Mr. Hopson's offices...