Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...document was dated August 6, 1935, and stipulated that the residuary income from the estate was to go to his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Randolph Mills, with the exception of bequests to Mrs. George R. Burgess, and George W. Sands both of whom were wards of Mr. Mills. In addition life annuities yielding from $1250 to $12500 were left his servants and personal employees...
...Democratic nomination in Arkansas is under normal circumstances tantamount to election. All Arkansas' Governor Carl Edward Bailey needed to do was to call a primary election which he could almost certainly have won. Instead, last August he chose what then appeared to be the even less risky method of having himself nominated by the State Democratic Committee on the ground that 120 days was not enough time to hold a primary and an election. Last summer, anti-Bailey Democrats, including the late Joe Robinson's faction of the party, held a convention of their own, nominated for Senator...
...obliged under the N. A. B. plan to find the extra $1,500,000 for Joe Weber's men by chipping in, in proportion to their financial resources. Each must earmark for music next year the equivalent of 5.49% of gross income during the year which ended last August 31. How the additional musicians are to be allocated among the stations remains to be determined by the N. A. B. To help the poorest broadcasters pay their new quotas, National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia Broadcasting System will put up $200,000. NBC's total music expenditures will rise...
Awarded. To Mrs. Drew Pearson, wife of the Washington columnist; exclusive custody and care of Tyler Abell, 5, her son by her first husband, Washington Journal ist George Abell; in Reno, Nev. In August Mr. & Mrs. Pearson pursued George and Tyler Abell to the Island of Sark, in the English Channel, "kidnapped" Tyler. The court held that George Abell forfeited custody of Tyler by violating a previous Nevada decree forbidding him to take Tyler...
...American Telephone & Telegraph reported that in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 earnings were up from $165,400,000 to $195,500,000. Operating revenue for 92 Class i railroads in September was $296,700,000 compared to $295,000,000 last year. But New York Central's August net was off from...