Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governments" up to $1,861,712,000. The Reserve system became the largest single holder of Treasury obligations last year when it bought nearly a billion dollars worth at an average of $100,000,000 per week in an effort to expand commercial credit. Its heavy buying ceased in August when its easy money policy failed to make headway against deflation. Under the new inflation law the system may buy up to $3,000,000,000 more of "governments." Last week's small start, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin explained, was simply "to inject life into the market...
...water. Canadians feared the Bright Fan's end would make Lloyd's drastically step up insurance rates on Churchill cargoes. But last week Canada's Department of the Interior announced a new agreement with Lloyd's, giving Churchill cargoes even better rates, extending the August-September insurance season from July...
...Schlageter cross last week, the greatest single crowd Western Germany has ever seen, but the ceremony was mild as ginger beer. By advice of counsel Adolf Hitler and former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm stayed away. Wilhelm of Doom sent a wreath, but the only Hohenzollern representative was fat Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") in his Nazi uniform. Chief oration came from bull-necked Wilhelm Hermann Goring who rattled no sabres, contented himself with saying...
Light Artillery and Heavy Artillery are two categories that keep the august delegates at Geneva awake nights. The Canadian Army boasts still another subdivision: Medium Artillery. In St. John, N. B. last week a brigade of Medium Artillery was out in the bright May sunshine banging away a 21-gun feu de joie in honor of a great occasion: St. John's 150th Loyalist...
Elected. Mrs. August Belmont, Manhattan socialite (formerly Eleanor Robson, actress): to be first woman board-member of Metropolitan Opera...