Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York city in 1752, founded there a line of merchants and lawyers. Their Benjamin was the second Jew appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York's Governor) at Port Chester, N. Y. On his last day there...
...President Roosevelt's National Resources Committee last week reported that the U. S. population will reach a minimum peak of 139,457,000 in 1960 (based on low birth rate, medium death rate, no immigration), or a maximum peak of 174,330,000 in 1980 (based on high birth rate, low death rate, no immigration). Between 1935 and 1975, persons 20 to 44 years old will increase by 6% , persons...
France joined last week the growing list of European nations which prescribe the death penalty for peacetime espionage...
...Bureau of the War Ministry, watchdog of French official secrets. Also the Minister of the Interior was empowered to expel or fix the residence of any foreigners. By decree last week Premier Edouard Daladier transferred espionage trials from civil tribunals to military and naval courts. The military law prescribes death for espionage; hence spies caught in the service of a foreign power, gathering information on inventions, manufactures, industrial methods, maps, documents or military plans, will hereafter go under the guillotine...
France's unsentimental penologists have remained singularly unimpressed by these horror stories. Two years ago, however, France's Popular Front Government started to do something about the penal colony. Last week Premier Edouard Daladier by decree prescribed a slow death for it. No more prisoners are to be sent there, but on the other hand, none of the 5,000 there now will be repatriated. Since the convicts die at the rate of about 500 a year, it will take about ten years to liquidate the penal colony...