Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierre Quesnay is the enfant terrible of the sedate Bank of France. He is only 35. He refuses to grow a beard. Among his hirsute colleagues the rise of this "boy" is considered almost a scandal. In Basle, Switzerland, last week the august board of the new Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), formed as "The Cash Register of German Reparations" (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.), solemnly met and all but unanimously elected Beardless Pierre Quesnay to be general manager of the bank...
...York, onetime (1921) Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City. As the Lobby Committee is four-to-one Dry, it inquired into all the Association's doings, until lobbying was almost forgotten. Sarcasm, sneers, low comedy, abusive epithets and verbal horseplay featured the Committee's august deliberations...
Young Man of Manhattan (Paramount). In reviewing this picture, the august New York Times said: "Norman Foster, as Toby McLean, gives an honest and restrained interpretation of a sportswriter for a metropolitan daily newspaper. ..." Whether the Times meant to be sarcastic or complimentary to Norman Foster, it was certainly not flattering to metropolitan sportswriters. By current Hollywood standards, the more or less chronic inebriation of Toby McLean is truly restrained; by the standards of actuality, contrary to all accepted belief, it is somewhat less so. But so far as actuality goes, Foster on the screen has an inestimable advantage over...
Will radio eventually supplant newspapers as the prime means of disseminating news? Journalists, disquieted over the question since the perfection of broadcasting, not only had a Cause last week; they had an Issue. President Karl August Bickel of the United Press was distressed that Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates at the London Naval Conference had consistently refused to give personal interviews but had frequently spoken their personal views over the radio. After Secretary Stimson himself spoke over the radio last fortnight, Mr. Bickel cabled...
Nuremberg. In July and August Wagner's Meistersinger given in its original setting...