Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More Plum, When such financially august gentlemen were elected to the Board it was certain that the ghost would be laid. But there soon was evidence that it was a trying party. In Wall Street there is a phrase well known among bankers-"O. P. M." which means "Other Peoples' Money." Usually O. P. M. is used to solve problems, but in the Fox case although a total of $75,000,000 was put up last week, only $30,000,000 was 0. P. M., obtained by selling new bonds to the public. And Fox stock instead of being...
Keen was the lamentation, sonorous the drumming which last August howled from the strange Church of the Innocent Blood in a swampy outskirt of New Orleans. Mother Catherine Seal, mulatto foundress of a faith-healing Afro-Catholic cult, was dead in far-away Lexington...
...Last August she herself had the "miseries." An evil spirit, she told her devotees, was haunting her. "Lord Jehoviah done told me to go to my old home in Kentucky and fight that spirit...
...Holland. An agent of Capitalist August Heckscher of Manhattan announced that New Holland Corp. might be dissolved. Six years ago the capitalist's and the corporation's names were news enough to set residents of Hyde County, N. C. agog. The capitalist poured millions into the company; the company set up huge pumping stations which drained the marshy old bed of Lake Matamuskeet for a mammoth "factory-farming" project. Wheat and soybeans were planted in great batches. First year it rained, flooding New Holland. Second year New Holland was a success. Third year brought a new failure...
...Chicago, August Eichenberg sat on a sidewalk, his body distorted, his head drooping, his hat in his lap. Sympathetic passersby tossed him coins. Then a woman looked at his face, fainted. No beggar, August Eichenberg was a corpse, had dropped dead on his way home from work...