Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Executions are so much part of British history," said Viscount Templewood, a Cabinet minister of the 1930s, "that it is almost impossible for many excellent people to think of the future without them." As late as the mid-19th century, when an Englishman could be hanged for 200 different offenses, most of them trivial, 20 or more persons were dispatched at once, and vast festive crowds turned out for the "hanging days" at Tyburn. In recent years, a steady campaign against the death penalty has been fought by lawyers and authors, including Barrister Charles Duff, who dedicated his devastating, sardonic...
Died. Vladimir Yourkevitch, 79, designer of France's famed Normandie, chief competitor of Britain's Queens for transatlantic honors in the 1930s, who in 1942 stood on a Manhattan pier as the ship burned and finally capsized, crying in vain to police holding him back that he alone had the knowledge to save the vessel; of cancer; in Yonkers...
...earliest major deals a century ago, it raised money in Germany for Sweden's infant railroad and financed Swedish iron and timber ex ports. Skandinaviska also bankrolled the worldwide ventures of Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger to the tune of $65 million, and his collapse in the 1930s almost brought the bank down as well...
...than 25 years, it decided that "the prescription of child-spacing measures should be made available to all who require them, consistent with their creed and mores." Having jealously opposed any intrusion into the doctor's domain or infringement of his right to collect fees in the Depression 1930s, the A.M.A. now decided that birth-control guidance should be equally available to private and clinic patients, regardless of whether they "obtain their medical care through private physicians or community-supported health services...
...artists who have painted Kennedy subject matter in the past year have accomplished anything more than timeliness. Social realism hardly makes the convincing picture that it did in the 1930s. But through Osborn's 27 chalk, collage and charcoal drawings in Manhattan's Downtown Gallery runs a brooding fury that links the cartoonist with the socially satirical art of Goya, Daumier and Ben Shahn. Side by side with looming figures symbolizing naked, illogical violence are Osborn's equally savage commentaries on the other nameless assassins responsible for the murders of Lieut. Colonel Lemuel Penn and the four...