Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the kidnapping business is so highly developed that socialites leave their expensive cars in their garages and go to parties in inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett was freed...
...your August 3 issue of TIME I see a note on the Texas-Oklahoma "Bridge War" to the effect that Ranger Captain Tom Hickman had "hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 feet shooting from the hip;'' also that Ranger Goss had "cut a playing card at 20 yards with his pistol inverted...
First there were reports that early summer rains had killed off the young grouse on the Scotch, English and Welsh moors. Then there were reports that the grouse had survived the wet, were as plentiful as usual. As The Twelfth, the historic August opening of Britain's grouse season approached, the reports turned dismal again. ''Grouse disease" had thinned out the coveys. Day before The Twelfth the moors were reported soggy, dank. Consequently Scotsmen anxiously assembled at the Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad stations to note how many rich Englishmen and Americans were coming up from London...
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and his aide, Capt. Eugene Regnier, rented a small farmhouse for the balance of August. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge invited a large party to his place in Forfarshire. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes was invited to the Duke of Montrose's estate, which an engagement with General John Joseph Pershing, also a keen visitor to the moors, prevented his accepting. The General and the Ambassador were inspecting War battlefields...
...August's advent revealed no improvement in the general level of U. S. business. Although shoe factories and wool mills were busy, basic industries remained prostrate. Earnings statements continued to make mostly poor reading...