Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milk Producers Association accounted for burnt barns, dynamited trucks around St. Louis. In Portland, Ore. last August, dairymen demanding higher prices seized distributors' trucks, poured the milk into ditches. At the same time in San Francisco a price war robbed milk of all value, when the product was given away free. In New York City last week, where Mrs. William Randolph Hearst was enjoying her annual Milk Fund celebration to supply milk to poor people's babies, the Health Department commission recommended a ban on all unbottled milk sales at retail...
Hardboiled Variety has called it "a saintly picnic, a slice of sweetness, a glorification of the humble and the familiar." Fortuitous though his creation was, Seth Parker has gained a radio following greater even than that of august Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Says the preface to his hymnal: "Seth Parker believes that religion is tangible; that it is a kind word, a thoughtful deed and is not something apart from every day life. He has probably done more to make religion a part of the American home than has any other...
Married. John Held Jr. 42, cartoonist, author (Grim Youth, The Flesh is Weak), divorced last August by Mrs. Ada Johnson Held; and one Gladys Moore, 24, winner of a Galveston beauty contest in 1928 at which Artist Held was a judge; in Stamford, Conn...
...John Simon, the British Empire's august new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (see p. 19) toiled most of last week at the congenial task of earning $125.000 by his efforts to win an appeal in the case of famed Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, sentenced to one year's imprisonment for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus (TIME, Aug. 10, et ante...
Remarried. Gloria Swanson, 31, cinemactress; and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; at Yuma, Ariz. They were illegally married last August at the Greenburgh, N. Y., summer home of Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, before Cinemactress Swanson's divorce from her third husband, Henri, Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, became final...