Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less popular with many a farmer suspicious of the Governor's city ways, his enthusiasm for organized labor even when it takes money out of farm pockets. Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson in 1936, once quit the party for a time because he thought it was going Communist. Last week, the party went to the polls to choose between Governor Benson and onetime Governor Petersen in its gubernatorial primary, to settle which was the stronger side of Farmer...
Since the terms of Senator Robert Wagner and Governor Lehman are both expiring, the death of Senator Royal S. Copeland fortnight ago left the most populous State's three biggest political jobs to be filled at once. Because Governor Lehman was drafted against his will to strengthen the New Deal ticket in 1936 and then did not prove as big a vote-getter as the President, the assumption was that he would step aside in favor of another gubernatorial candidate, possibly popular Bob Wagner. While Franklin Roosevelt's lieutenants pondered what would be the best political line...
Formal court mourning is an expensive undertaking against which many London businesses-notably caterers-are insured. The English court never prescribes mourning for those not of the Royal Family, no matter how close their relationship. Death of the Queen's mother proved no exception. The Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain, announced "no commands for Court mourning will be issued by the King," added that "Their Majesties will observe family mourning as also will members of the Royal households when in attendance upon Their Majesties...
...Countess' death came only six days before the long-awaited, elaborately-arranged State visit of the King & Queen to Paris was scheduled to take place. From France came regrets from President Albert Lebrun, a promptly accepted suggestion that the visit be postponed until July...
...story begins in the 80s, when the death of her widowed father, a Chicago cop, leaves her an orphan. May knows how to take care of herself. ("Off with you," she tells the oglers, "or I'll knock the Holy Jesus out of you.") At the same time, "deep down May was an aristocrat, a lady." She proves it by marrying handsome, good-for-nothing Mike Flavin, who takes her to Manhattan, buys a newsstand, leaves her to carry on while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although...