Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...application here. There are valid reasons for the North Vietnamese to want the reunification promised at the Geneva Conference to take place, and it is obviously in China's interest to back them in this struggle. China may some day turn into the insatiable monster Germany was in the 1930s, but it has not yet, and without proof the United States is not justified in assuming that it will. Like the other super-powers, it wants friendly governments on its borders. Yet there is a difference between this imperialism and the crazed policy of aggrandizement that sent German divisions smashing...
Stiff Tonic. Miles got started on all this activity as the result of a king-sized headache of its own. Founded in 1884 by Elkhart Physician Franklin Miles, who started off with a liquid sedative known as Dr. Miles' Nervine, Miles remained a small company until the early 1930s, when it brought out Alka-Seltzer. Though archrival Bromo-Seltzer had already been marketing an effervescent powder for years, Alka-Seltzer soon moved ahead to become a dyspeptic nation's favorite (it now outsells Bromo-Seltzer 4 to 1). After packaging powdered coffee and lemon mix for K-rations...
...Greek term pornographos, meaning literally "the writing of harlots," has always been relative and subjective. As D. H. Lawrence put it, "What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another." Until the 1930s, U.S. courts generally followed a celebrated 1868 ruling of Britain's Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, whose test for obscenity-used more or less interchangeably with pornography-was the effect any material might have on a hypothetical schoolgirl, or its tendency to "deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences." This ruling, which bedeviled and outraged...
Thwarted Love. In the 1930s, the once funny comics grew ever more solemn. Dick Tracy introduced blood and bullets that had long been taboo, plus an assortment of grotesquely drawn but weirdly fascinating hoods: Prune Face, Fly Face, No Face. In Terry and the Pirates, Milton Caniff soon replaced the pirates with the Japanese-Terry was the first comic strip to go to war. Later Caniff gave up the youthful Terry for the more mature Steve Canyon, a seat-of-the-pants pilot who fights the battles of the Air Force so effectively that Caniff was once denounced...
...Facto Abolition. For all the current abolitionist enthusiasm, the death pen alty has in fact been dying for some time. The country's murder rate is 40% less than it was in the 1930s, and more murderers are being committed to men tal institutions. Modern penology has swung from retaliation to rehabilitation, and paroled murderers rarely murder again. Even states empowered to execute are loath to do so. While rejecting abolition, Massachusetts has not executed anyone since 1947. New Hampshire has put no one to death since 1939. According to the most recent Gallup poll, only 45% of Americans...