Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advancing my career further and more rapidly than I could have done had I remained in Europe." But she continued, in the stilted phrases of her lawyers: "My gratitude does not in any way alter my conviction that she [Madame Zenatello] has been an untrustworthy and unfaithful agent." Husband August Mesritz gave details: "Not only did Maria Gay treat my wife as a puppet to be let out of a box or put in again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with...
...Soviet Government, in a note to France of August 31, 1928, said that in its opinion "there must be forbidden not only wars in the form of the judicial meaning of the word but also such military actions as intervention, blockade, military occupation of foreign territory, etc". Yet in the very next year, the U.S.S.R. denied that its actions in Manchuria, which included armed invasion of Chinese territory, bombardment by land and air of Chinese frontier towns, and the defeat of the local Chinese troops, constituted an infringement of the Pact of Paris. No other Power supported the United States...
...Japan's grievance, and it is unquestionably up to the powers acting in cooperation to take drastic action to curb the Japanese immediately. Otherwise it may be too late, and the world will have to reproach itself with the greatest calamity since the dark days of July and August...
...When the Wiggin Committee of the Rank for International Settlements on August 19 told the world that tariffs should be lowered, it was simply repeating advice which had been given many lines during recent years. On April 21, 1931, a similar recommendation was made by General W. W. Atterbury, the learner Republican National Committee man from the protections stronghold of Pennsylvania. But the advice has been little heeded, in part because the man in the street does not clearly understand how and why rising tariffs have been undermining his prosperity...
...Crimson stars will entrain for California on July 9 and will play in the Olympic Stadium on the evening of August 10. Owing to the heat the practice sessions, like the final clash, will be staged, out of doors under flood lights. Their expenses will be paid by the Olympic Committee, and uniforms will be provided for them. These funds, collected by the Committee, consist largely of the contributions of the city of Los Angeles, Clark stated yesterday