Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third on the program was the smart, husky, popular encyclopedia who calls himself "the best damned no-trump player in the United States," Economist Leon Henderson, who used to work for the Russell Sage Foundation until he was taken to Washington for NRA, after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising...
Hero's End. George White Rogers first got into the headlines in 1934 when he clung to his key in the radio shack of the burning liner Morro Castle, risked the death that overtook 124 others. Having joined the Bayonne, N. J. police radio squad as a patrolman, Hero Rogers was headlined again last March after he handed an electrical "fish tank heater" to his friend and chief, Lieutenant Vincent J. Doyle. The package exploded, nipping three fingers from Lieutenant Doyle's left hand, paralyzing his left leg, laying Hero Rogers open to the suspicion that...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts NBC Symphony in Ludwig van Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Siegfried's Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung...
...daughter dies, a victim of his money-mania, his son hates him, turns poet, loves the daughter of MacTay's ruined rival. And when MacTay dies on the eve of the World War, having just completed a vast merger, his wife is quickly comforted by the thought that death is a kindlier rival than coal mines and steel mills...
...action in calling a "shadow parliament," and to the widespread charge that he is a fascist, Edouard Daladier has summoned the French "deux chambres." Scheduled to meet this week, he deputies can either decisively rebuke the methods of their premier, or become a post-mortem rubber stamp on the death of democracy...