Word: blood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Hungary's Premier Bela Imrédy, speaking at his home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
Absurd as it was for a statesman of Semitic descent to promote antiSemitism, the discovery of Jewish blood provided the excuse rather than the reason for the Imredy resignation. The Premier was already on his way out. Leading politicians, the powerful Catholic Church, even some Cabinet colleagues were glad...
Cardiac asthma, which has no relation to true or bronchial asthma, sometimes occurs with arteriosclerosis, is characterized by a sudden rise in blood pressure, frantic gasping for breath, and frequent attacks of coughing. He was afflicted with myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), and by this time his entire circulatory system was breaking down...
...five years (1925-30) the Schlessers slaughtered some 300,000 head of outlaws, salted their meat in 51 -gallon barrels, shipped most of it to Holland and Scandinavia. Hooves, ears, tails were sold for glue and oil; ground bones and scraps for chickenfeed ; hides for baseballs and shoes ; blood for fertilizer; casings for German sausage. Then the day of the wild horse began to wane, and the Schlessers turned to packing beef...
...about $2,400 a year, including income from his job printing. If he lives far out on the range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly...