Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, an hour and a half after Chairman Morgan thus defied the third and final dead line set by the President for withdrawing or supporting his public charges against his fellow directors, Harcourt Morgan and David Eli Lilienthal (TIME, March 28), a band of interested reporters crowded noisily into the President's circular office for their regular White House press conference. When they had lined up around his desk, Franklin Roosevelt began to read a letter he had just dispatched to Chairman Morgan...
Seated cross-legged in a basket, the dead Indian was wrapped in hundreds of yards of cotton and wool cloth and decked in all the finery of the historic civilization from the dry eastern sea-coast of South America...
Part journalism, part lyricism, part Marxian mysticism, the 20 poems composing The Book of the Dead are so many strong shakes given to its readers' complacencies. That Poet Rukeyser has shaken her own complacencies first is shown in her book's 20-odd other poems, notably The Drowning Young Man, probably the best poem on a suicide yet written in America. Taken all together, the poems are an exciting and, on the whole, trustworthy appeal to all the belligerents who [and only who, if you ask Poet Rukeyser] know the world. Only these, she implies...
...DEAD DON'T CARE-Jonathan Latimer-Crime Club ($2). Two private investigators who like to drink double triple Scotches manage between drinks to solve a kidnapping, a shooting and a poisoning on a Florida estate. In spots very funny; very, very tough throughout. Readers with weak stomachs had better not apply. A condensed version appeared serially in Collier's under the title A Queen's Ransom...
...WAKE THE DEAD-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). An English couple, just returned from South Africa with a group of friends, are brutally murdered, a few days apart and in different parts of England. Scotland Yard suspects all members of their party, all of whom suspect each other. Genial, astute Dr. Fell solves one of his most opaque jobs...