Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ailing Pat Harrison had phoned to the White House in mid-September-to lie low, avoid dramatic moves, cajole the South. For once more the South's balance of power had been clearly demonstrated. Lacking Southern support, Franklin Roosevelt was beaten on every Congressional front in July and August (TIME, August 14); with it he won clearly in the Senate last fortnight, in the House last week-where 95 Southern votes were cast for repeal of the arms embargo, two against...
...people who live in southeastern Europe, the Rumanians associate the old overlordship of Vienna, the Sultans and the Tsars with their primitive miseries. Hitler and Stalin are just two more potential overlords to them and, as never before, Rumanians cherish their nationalism and independence. When last August King Carol declared: "Our frontiers, traced in blood, cannot be altered without a world cataclysm," he got a resounding amen from his people...
...Washington last week the Federal Reserve Board estimated October production at 120 (1923-25 equals 100), up 18 points from August, nine points from September, 24 points from last October. In Manhattan the National City Bank compiled its quarterly summary of the earnings of 320 leading corporations: for July-August-September 1939, $201,000,000, against $104,000,000 a year earlier...
Work was of the most informal variety, as members of the ski team came and went working a couple of doer of a time of a compile of weeks at a time. Beginning at the end of August, there was work being done continuously until last week when the finishing touches were...
...German freighter, deep grey and black, slipped quietly out of Kiel, nosed through cold, thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...