Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AUGUST WAGNER...
Embargo On. Fortnight ago Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, once in charge of Prohibition enforcement, now of Customs, precipitately slapped a tariff embargo on Russian pulpwood, imported chiefly by International Paper Co. through Amtorg Trading Corp. from Archangel (TIME, August 4). His authority: Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 which prohibits importation of "all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor." His reason: secret evidence that Soviet political prisoners were logging the forests of North Russia. Pressed for details, he would only...
...Said the august Liberal Manchester Guardian: ". . . curious layers of vulgarity . . . much beauty but little grandeur. We surely can ask for a little more plain science...
...Kreuznach on the Rhine, G.H.Q. of the German Army from August 1916 to February 1918, gallant, gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg last week halted his triumphal tour of the liberated Rhine provinces (TIME, July 14 et seq.) to stalk stiffly about the buildings where he had worked so long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn...
...Outlaw Years is the August choice of the Literary Guild...