Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 23, only nine days before Adolf Hitler ordered his Army to invade Poland, Leopold and Wilhelmina, joined by the heads of the three Scandinavian States and Finland and Luxembourg, had offered their "good offices" in mediating Europe's crisis. Five days later the offer was repeated. Since these appeals, then politely rejected, presumably still stood open, observers wondered why the two practical sovereigns found it necessary to renew their peace effort at a time when there was less likelihood than ever before that the belligerents would lay down their arms. Moreover, this new appeal contained no formula...
...effectiveness of the effective British blockade of Germany's munitions and commodity supply lines. The tonnage figures sounded good to Parliament (see p. 21), and so did his announcement that since war began Great Britain has been able to triple the number of her submarine hunters. Last August ?11,000,000 was appropriated for construction of small anti-submarine craft...
This rationalization did much to put a better face on Joe Stalin's signing up with Hitler; foreign Communists and fellow travelers were given a rebuttal to fling at those who have maintained since August that Joe is just another opportunist dictator. If he was still against everybody's government, he might still be for the amelioration of the world's masses...
Gypsy Smith began evangelizing New York last month in The Bronx, delivered 13 sermons in rich, old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, moved uptown again last fortnight. He winds up his engagement this week in no less august a fane than the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Bishop William Thomas Manning presiding. To his audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith...
Worse Off than in 1938 were seven baking companies whose profits were down 2.8%; seven beverage makers down 4.3%; six miscellaneous mining and quarrying companies are down 10%; 13 oil companies down 30.8%, reflecting August's overproduction crisis, the most serious in U. S. oil history and the failure of War II to provide export relief for continued inventory trouble...