Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...august Supreme Court this week proceeded to slap faces to Right and Left. On the Right those eminent attorneys who once were sure the National Labor Relations Act was unconstitutional, were slapped again by a series of decisions upholding the law. On the Left those liberals who have long maintained that the Court was an arch enemy of Labor were rebuked with decisions favorable to Labor...
...Liberal News Chronicle hailed "good old Gracie . . . universal pleasure." Pontificated the august, conservative Times: "Even the formal appellation of Grace, 'Mrs. Selinger, C. B. E.' cannot hide the boundless fame of Gracie Fields...
...military planes and munitions to Spanish Leftists despite Belgian adherence to the Non-intervention Committee. Admittedly the two letters had been stolen from M. Wauters' desk. In the chamber M. Wauters was able to prove: that the planes were three obsolete Fokkers of no military use, bought in August 1936, several months before M. Wauters was a Cabinet Minister, a week before Belgium entered the Non-intervention agreement, and 2) that the planes are still in Belgium...
Fortnight ago Senator Robert Johns Bulkley of Ohio, facing a primary fight against a hard roads ex-Governor this August, proposed a network of 100 ft. express highways which would avoid towns and cities, shoot directly across and up & down the U. S. There were to be seven North-South routes, three transcontinental. Total cost: $8,000,000,000, to be met in 16 years by tolls and leases of concession privileges along the way. Last week in the House, Alabama's Representative Henry B. Steagall, more famed for banking than transportation legislation, introduced a companion measure...
...decline in the price of stocks within three months beginning last August (1 brought the markets to the lowest point of all time, 2 was about the same as the decline in 1929, 3 brought the market to the lowest point since 1929, 4 was comparable to the drop in 1921's was the swiftest decline of U. S. business and finance in thirty years...