Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song Gloomy Sunday is being played all over the world bewildered me-I do not know whether I should be happy over it. I stand in the midst of this deathly success as an accused. Believe me, Karcsi, this "fatal fame" hurts me. It hurls that so many people chose this song as their death march, making it world-famous with their act. People who die with a song must have beautiful souls, but I do not compose them for that purpose. I write songs to have people sing them and enjoy themselves while doing it. What prompted...
...weeks ago, when the Hauptmann furor had temporarily died down, New Jersey's Republican State Committee chose to indicate that harmony had been restored within the Party by endorsing Governor Hoffman as a candidate for delegate-at-large to the coming national convention. Day after the Hauptmann execution last week Republican Fort, confident of strong Party support, announced that he would run against Governor Hoffman for that job next May 19 on the sole issue of the Hoffman Case. "For five years," declared he, "I have taken no part in New Jersey political affairs other than to support...
...third delegation entered the Democratic primary when a group of Townsendites chose Representative John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate of California, to carry the banner of $200-per-month for oldsters. Some distant observers assumed that the McGroartys had Dr. Townsend's support. Instead, Dr. Townsend and several of his leading followers declared that, as a matter of policy, they would not support Representative McGroarty or any candidate for President on the Democratic ticket. This week Representative McGroarty publicly broke with Dr. Townsend...
Burden. Rather than go on the assumption that relief needs in fiscal 1937 would approximate those of fiscal 1936, the President chose an alternative, not so vague as a suggestion, not so definite as a plan: "I am, however, not asking this Congress to appropriate...
...Catholics who worship under the Chaldean Rite. Would His ' Beatitude please send a priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U. S.? In Mosul, Iraq the white-bearded Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed his shiny black pillbox hat, arrived in Manhattan last August wearing the dark mufti of a priest. In Chicago last week Father Thomay was laying plans to build the first Chaldean...