Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it did not now advocate overthrowing the U. S. Government, and by Poland's protesting that it did not want Joe because he was originally Austrian (the village of his birth was obliterated by the World War), a warrant for his deportation which had been issued in August 1934 became effective as of January 1937. Joe hired a lawyer to appeal his case in U. S. Circuit Court at St. Louis. That lawyer drank up his expense money and filed no appeal, so Joe was taken to New Orleans to be deported. But Joe's Hot Springs...
This week the Supreme Court's august decision on Joe Strecker is at least two weeks off. Meantime, he waited in Hot Springs, did a few odd jobs (carpentering, paperhanging...
...gotten out of the market after the TIMEline's sharp drop in April, would have missed the 30 to 40 point rise that took place subsequently. Chart readers would have noted that the TIMEline in September 1929, before the market crash, broke through its previous bottom (made in August...
Scheming, ambitious third son of a Dutch sailor, Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding quit his job in an Amsterdam bank at 22 to seek his fortune with The Netherlands Trading Society in the East Indies. He quit the Society to seek his fortune with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was director of a little company with a big name: The Royal Dutch Company for the Working of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies. When Kessler died in 1900, Royal Dutch had wells all over the Dutch East Indies and markets all over the East. Deterding succeeded...
...August morning in 1937, Inspector Norman R. Arthur was patrolling the harbor of Honolulu looking for violators of the Federal law against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...