Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations signed the Kellogg-Briand pact, renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes. Next year, Frank Billings Kellogg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for sponsoring it. Last week, in St. Paul, Statesman Kellogg, 81, died of pneumonia (see p. 41). His death and that of onetime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker coincided ironically with his country's gravest international crisis since 1917, a crisis caused by the war between China and Japan upon which the only discernible influence of the Kellogg Pact was the fact that both sides had politely refrained from declaring...
...reporters assigned to the death watch of the peace conferences Mr. Harrison declared: "We broke up. It's all off. . . . It's useless to continue. We have not set any date to reconvene...
Though the Chicago police were officially whitewashed by a special investigating committee of six unemployed American Legionnaires for shooting and clubbing ten men to death outside a Republic Steel plant one Sunday last May, the city's officials were left holding an exceedingly hot potato. Arrested during the massacre were 63 men & women, many of them badly wounded. They were originally held on charges of conspiracy. The State finally solved its problem by reducing the charges to unlawful assembly. Last week 57 defendants, some still battered, pleaded guilty. Six others, accused of being leaders, were fined $10 each...
...locists the world over are doing what they can to salvage the remnants of primitive music. Patient, ill-paid scholars sweat through the tropics holding microphones, and even old-fashioned dictaphones, to the mouths of aging tribesmen, hoping to catch and preserve melodies that are on the point of death. Collections of their records are kept in museums. Now & then a few are put on sale...
After his death in 1901, a brief, old-fashioned travel diary was found among Bishop Whipple's papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail...