Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin Johnston announced, on the steps of the White House, his intention to enter his State's Senatorial primary next August against old, unreconstructed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith. Trumpeted Governor Johnston: "During my administration as Governor of South Carolina I have backed the reforms and policies of President Roosevelt 100%. In South Carolina . . . the policies of the New Deal . . . have lost none of their popularity. My campaign for the Senate will be based on a record of constant, unshakable loyalty to the Democratic platform and the head of our party...
...picture showed a pirt of the 45th Division of the National Guard, which has headquarters at Oklahoma City, maintains units in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In August 1924, the division, at the suggestion of the Arizona department, adopted as its insignia an old Navajo Indian emblem, a swastika.* In August 1924, Adolf Hitler was in Cell No. 7, Landsberg Fortress, near Munich, serving time for his "beer-hall Putsch," eleven years away from making the swastika the centre of the German national flag...
Sportswriters listened to his claim: "I was a left-handed pitcher for the Phillies. I guess you'd call me the Hubbell of my time. We were playing the Giants in the old Philadelphia ball park on August 21, 1887. Tim Keefe was pitching against me and he had a lot of stuff but I was no slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4-to-3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with...
...scholars from outside the University who will join 82 faculty members, including 17 full professors, in the Summer School from July 5 to August...
WIND OVER WISCONSIN-August Derleth-Scribner ($2.50). Volume Two in 29-year-old Author Derleth's conscientious project of a Wisconsin historical novel, this is a poetic, placid story of Wisconsin during the Black Hawk War, centring on an idealistic French fur trader...