Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absolute. He has charge of his terri tory's budget, initiates programs, promotes and transfers officers, has full disciplinary power over them. "We have rules," says he, "and they are very rigid. We feel that officers' lives should be kept apart." Officers cannot smoke, use alcohol, go to the theatre. Since the choice of a mate requires the approval of their superiors, nearly all of them marry within the ranks, rear another generation of Salvationists. Mrs. Commissioner Damon was Captain Annie Barrow before her marriage. The Damons' daughter, Mrs. Adjutant Lyell Rader of Newark, is an active...
Last week the cold, still heart of Leon Trotsky was removed from his corpse, weighed, and bottled in alcohol. Weight: 1.13 Ib. A surgeon sawed open the Trotsky skull, cut away the brain envelope, severed the nerves leading to the spinal column, lifted out that once-great brain. Weight...
Last week France's Vichy Government banned Pernod and all other aperitifs containing more than 16% alcohol.* Alleged reason: Pernod caused men & women to quarrel and get nervous disorders, instead of becoming loving parents...
...watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud ; the Rev. Sam Morris who daily lets fly on the evils of alcohol and Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel of Texas, who use 100,000-watt station XEAW at Reynosa...
Died. Colonel His Highness Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, G. C.S.I., G.B.E., Maharaja of Mysore, second richest man in India; of heart disease; in Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...