Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Hugh Johnson been in Elmer Andrews' shoes, however, hell would surely have popped and dead cats would have passed each other in midair. For far and wide, U. S. businessmen were unhappy. What most of them wanted last week was not relief from upped labor costs but relief from uncertainty. From a Detroit hotel which feared that elevator boys who serve traveling salesmen were engaged in interstate commerce, to a Texas turkey raiser who wanted to know whether employes who gathered his turkey eggs had to get 25? an hour, employers were in a dither to know whether...
...Only CCCster ever killed by a hunter was Harry L. Meyer, in Oregon in 1936. Some other CCCsters, killing a deer, found Meyer shot dead beside...
Most citizens have supposed that dirigible construction in the U. S. was as dead as the 89 good men who went down with the Shenandoah in 1925, the Akron in 1933, the Macon in 1935. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt corrected this impression. He ordered the construction of a new rigid airship for the U. S. Navy...
...Japan proposes to slam the "Open Door" to Occidental trade with China, hog it herself, and renounce the Washington Nine Power Treaty of 1922. In confirmation of these fears the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared in Tokyo: "Japan considers the Nine Power Treaty obsolete or 'dead.' Whether we will denounce it or withdraw has not yet been decided. The [Japanese] Government is examining the advantages of creation of a Tri-Power Pact [of Japan, Manchukuo and China...
Sandford staged cures and claimed he raised the dead, but at least 20 people died without medical care at Shiloh, and "Elijah" was thrice tried for manslaughter. He was convicted of nothing, however, until 1911, when he returned from a world voyage on a leaky schooner. Six followers had died of scurvy, exposure or starvation. Tried for manslaughter, Sandford was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta Penitentiary, was released after six, then disappeared from public sight...