Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remaining members of the Harvard unit of the N. R. O. T. C. who have applied for membership in the cruise which is annually offered by the government to naval students, are scheduled to embark in the U. S. S. Arkansas from the port of Boston on August 27, returning on September 16. They will make the trip in company with the corresponding units of the universities of Yale and Northwestern, and of Georgia Tech...
...last week, "is more or less on trial." His "trial" judges, acting for the organization's Central Committee, are Eliot Wadsworth, Boston financier, onetime (1921-25) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; George Eaton Scott, Chicago steel founder, a fisherman (past president of the Izaac Walton League); and Mrs. August Belmont, Manhattan dowager. They expect, as does he, that he will soon know enough facts to purge the Red Cross of inconsequential expenses and personnel, to balance its budget, regain popular esteem. Conducting the actual investigation: Edwin G. Booz Surveys of Chicago...
...distinguished structure is the 40-story Equitable Office Building at No. 120 Broadway. It is the only office building listed on the New York Stock Exchange; it has Francis V. du Pont as president, Matthew Chauncey Brush and August Heckscher as vice presidents; its tenants include many famed brokers, bankers and industrial concerns.* One of its most distinguished tenants is the big company on the 13th floor. When the directors of this company meet, they test its products as well as discuss its affairs. Orange juice from National Juice Corp. slakes their thirst. Dietician Marye Dahnk of Kraft-Phenix Cheese...
...heroic Water Front Fighters the mobilized men will be used to speed up transport on Russia's inland waterways, now ice-free for the short, hectic summer season (May through August). According to the Commissariat of Labor 71,000,000 tons more freight must be carried by the rivers this year than last, an increase...
Standing firm with his Church, whose Bishops at the Lambeth Conference last August recorded their "strong condemnation of any methods [save abstinence] of birth control from selfishness, luxury or mere convenience" (TIME, Aug. 25), he pointed out that the sexual instinct, used for procreation, is a holy one, but "when misused ... it becomes a carnal instinct. While the respondent believes in this absolute standard of morals, he is sympathetic with human weakness, and knows that it will take humanity a long time to reach that goal...