Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis may not be quite "a watershed in human affairs," as Adlai Stevenson calls it, but the whole U.N. experiment has come close to collapse. There are uncomfortable parallels with the disintegration of the League in the 1930s: failure to stop aggression (then it was the Italian attack on Abyssinia), withdrawal by members (then Japan and Nazi Germany). Is the U.N. also falling apart? Should the U.S., the U.N.'s most ardent and generous backer, continue to support it? And just what is there left to support...
...with the recent addition of Oregon, Iowa and West Virginia, the number of no-death-penalty states has risen to eleven. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported a record low of 15 executions in 1964, compared with a yearly average of 167 in the 1930s...
Died. George Francis Hicks, 60, radio and TV announcer for NBC since the 1930s, best known for his stirring D-day description of the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, coolly broadcasting from the deck of the command ship A neon while under severe attack by Nazi bombers; of cancer; in Queens...
More Than the Machines. In his attempt to win a fourth term, Tucker was done in by St. Louis' Democratic ward leaders, who have never liked him. A onetime Washington University engineering professor, Tucker made a name for himself in the 1930s when, as his city's first smoke commissioner, he was instrumental in getting through a strong anti-smoke ordinance that went a long way toward cleaning out St. Louis' polluted air. Reform-minded business leaders in 1953 nominated Tucker as an independent Democratic candidate for mayor, and Tucker defeated the Democratic machine candidate...
Died. Margaret Dumont, 75, stately foil for Marx Brothers shenanigans in the 1930s and early '40s, who in seven films (Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races) played the society dowager to Groucho's knave with hardly a quiver of her lorgnette, while he pranced, pinched and leered; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...