Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time Mrs. Norton was able to keep the bill from death by amendment. The few minor amendments adopted exempted from the provisions of the bill agricultural workers, employes of any branch of the fishing industry, of weekly or semiweekly country newspapers with circulations of 3,000 or less. California's Charles Kramer relieved his colleagues' tension for a moment by offering an amendment exempting child actors from the child labor provisions. Dubbed the Shirley Temple Amendment, it was promptly adopted. But the tension returned as the bill approached its real test, and then as the first fateful...
...Deal. He now distributes much Federal patronage in Manhattan for Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley. Prosecutor Dewey charged that the same hand which distributes this patronage received from $500 to $1,000 per week from the policy racketeers-headed first by the late "Dutch" Schultz, since his death by that gangster's slick lawyer, "Dixie" Davis-as the price for providing political influence (with police, judges, etc.) to keep the racketeers out of jail...
...Iron Guard members had drawn lots to choose the assassin. Meanwhile, scores of students, policemen, professors, politicians became victims of Iron Guard terrorism. Last year one of his lieutenants, Jon Stelescu, left him, founded his own party, the Rumanian Crusaders. Shortly afterward, Apostate Stelescu was stabbed and shot to death. In a "heads-shall-roll" list discovered by Rumanian police, Stelescu's party had placed as No. 1, Jewish Magda Lupescu, the King's "favorite...
SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMEN, and MOUSSORGSKY: SONG OF THE FLEA (Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin; Victor). Death two months ago of the greatest singing actor of his generation prompted Victor to re-issue these two lighter items on a memorial disc. Made when Basso Chaliapin was vocally past his prime...
...Whisenhunt, a funeral parlor proprietor of Anadarko, Okla., was Hard Luck Harry of the whole U. S. last week-and its most indefatigable airplane rider. Mr. Whisenhunt received a telegram saying that his wife was near death in a Kansas City hospital. Leaving a daughter seriously ill with whooping cough, he flew to Kansas City, found his wife better. He received a message that his daughter was worse. He flew back. Alighting from his plane at Oklahoma City he sprained an ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew...