Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled through two days before without a record vote. Congressman Vinson, who has always tried to do his level best for Franklin Roosevelt, drawled: "We have done our dead level best to ... be helpful to business recovery." By no means reassured but heartily sick of six months' talk about taxes, the House discussed the bill briefly, extended the hour allotted for discussion to pay tributes to Member Vinson, who had been rewarded for his labors...
...bombing of great cities again became a live issue in Spain's dreary and deathly civil war last week as Barcelona, the Leftist Capital in which the Rightists claim there are "180 purely military objectives," suffered four big raids within 33 hours. Casualties announced: 200 dead and wounded. Since the original heavy bombing of Barcelona (at which time many observers thought the modern "Douhet Theory" of demoralizing, unrestricted air warfare was being applied for the first time) Rightist Air Force Commander General Alfredo Kindelan has written an article entitled Clipped Wings. In this, General Kindelan boldly grumbled against...
...Interventor Colonel Oswaldo Cordeiro de Faria, who had been busy battling attackers at his home, appeared still clad in his pajamas at the head of a company of police, civilians and soldiers. They bottled up the Green Shirts with a flanking movement. Thirty Integralistas were captured, eight lay dead...
...Navy Ministry, where the Integralistas had their only success in their well-planned but weakly-executed Putsch, the rebels were quickly dislodged and captured. An attack on the Green Shirt headquarters netted another 300 prisoners, and within 48 hours the jails were jammed with 700 prisoners, 25 Integralistas lay dead in the morgues. At least five Vargas defenders were killed in the attacks...
...Tannhauser" Entrance of the Guests into the WartburgWagner *Scherzo from the "Eroica" Symphony, No. 3 Beethoven *Sandman's Song and Evening Prayer, from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck *Seventh Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Pavane for a Dead Infants Ravel *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" Wagner *Wine, Woman and Song" Waltzes Strauss *"Deep River" Arranged by Jacchia "Up the Street" March Morse *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...