Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remembering bloodthirsty stories of France's Devil Island and Italy's Lampedusa, meticulous Robert A. Maier, Mexican correspondent of Berlin's Lokalan-zeiger anticipated the first anniversary of General Obregon's death by going to visit Mother Concepcion, to see for himself what a Mexican penal island is like...
...Tribune in 1907 he said: "You make the newspaper. Ill sell it." His confidence in himself was shared by the newsdealers, whom he made his friends by every means at his command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago strike, he ignored death threats, put his Tribunes on armed trucks, saw that every newsstand was supplied. In newsdealers' tiny offices, storerooms, back-alley loafing places, the name Max Annenberg became a great name. They call him "Max," he calls them by their first names. Once when a newsdealer died and left his business...
...last week librarians grieved, paid tribute. Since his Denver days he had gone to Springfield, Mass., for four years (1898-1902) and increased that library's circulation by 47%. Then he had entered the Newark Public Library of which he was still Librarian at the time of his death. The Newark shelves had 78,798 books when he arrived. Last year it had 391,843 volumes and a 5-to-1 turnover. During his 27 years, two outstanding Dana deeds were the installation of the first U. S. Business Man's Library and, in 1918, his refusal...
...Vatican last week were holy stirrings. Pope Pius XI was to address the Cardinals and add to their number, which Death had depleted from 70 (full strength) to 58. A secret consistory was held. Silver trumpets sounded. The great Sistine choir chanted. There were parades and regalias...
...talked last week to English Jews about a Viennese Jew who wanted Jewry to return and live in Palestine. The occasion was a London meeting to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism. It was Dr. Herzl who, while reporting the famed Dreyfus affair (1894) for the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, found his attention focused on antiSemitism, his Jewish consciousness aroused.* Two years later, aged 36, he published The Jewish State, a speedily famed pamphlet which, with secular, economic emphasis, advocated Jewish national reunion. Followed congresses, interviews with world rulers, potent propagandizing...