Word: august
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baldish, sharp-nosed and Polish was the nice gentleman, Foreign Minister August Zaleski. He was in Bucharest, last week, to keep warm negotiations which have long been simmering toward a Rumanian-Polish treaty of friendship and arbitration. From Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski of Poland he brought to King Mihai some brightly painted wooden toys; a railway train (considerably inferior to last year's); a big book of Polish fairy tales, The Story of the Dwarfs and the Little Orphans, translated into English-the language Mihai most easily reads, usually talks...
Less sure of himself was another Chilean, 20-year-old Luis Ramirez Olachea, who hid nervously behind a tree while President Ibaez inspected cows. As SeÑor IbaÑez made his august emergence, Luis Olachea stumbled uncertainly through the ranks of saluting soldiery, ran forward, waving a rusty revolver. President Ibaez fixed him with an icy stare...
...anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1927, as proof that he sympathized with them. Anti-referendumists quoted von Hindenburg's thanks to Foreign Minister Stresemann on his return from The Hague Parley (TIME, Aug. 19) as his personal endorsement of the Young Plan. Irate and august, President von Hindenburg reasserted his neutrality: "I declare herewith that I have given nobody authorization or cause to make known my personal opinion on this problem." To the old Feldmarschall went Chancellor Müller. He recalled that the President is in duty bound to promulgate such measures as the Reichstag...
...paid by them his salary ($10,000 per year). As a Senate clerk he also signed the U. S. payroll and drew a salary at the rate of $3,000 per year from the Government. This he turned over to another Bingham clerk. After he had left Washington in August, Senator Bingham sent him a personal check...
Newspapers do not often compliment each other, with or without cause. But last week Variety, Manhattan theatrical weekly, took off its slouch hat to the august New York Times, thus: HONEST TIMES "Col. Charles Lindbergh finally sent the only photographs of himself and bride on their honeymoon to the New York Times for enlargement. They were snapshots and turned out beautiful. "Times offered Lindbergh $1,500 for the set. They'd have made ideal roto 'shots.' Lindbergh declined the offer and asked for a bill for the enlargement, which the Times sent. "If the colonel had sent...