Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, master of words, is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
...refugees' treatment, accused the guards of brutality. As a result of criticism, some efforts at improvement have recently been made. In the British House of Lords, Lord Faringdon asked that Britain cooperate with the French at once to end needless suffering. According to Lord Faringdon the refugee death rate was high...
...Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned. Two were assassinated: Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist in 1894, Paul Doumer by a Russian in 1932. Félix Faure died a natural death in office...
...sole voting trustee. As trustee he has irrevocable control over all Hearst enterprises-provided he can keep the Consolidated preferred stockholders happy-until 1947, when Hearst will be 84. Nobody, not even Hearst, knows if Hearst will live that long, and so the trusteeship is a race against death, when the Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors can no longer be stalled. Even more, it is a race against dwindling confidence. Judge Shearn has abandoned a large part of the Hearst empire, and well he knows how ephemeral is the faith that holds the rest...
...Negro Glois Grimes near Hanover Courthouse, Va. Dr. Dodd, arrested on a hit-&-run charge, pleaded not guilty. On trial last week, he changed his plea, threw himself on the mercy of the court. His daughter, Martha Dodd Stern, testified that he had declined mentally and physically since the death of his wife last spring. His lawyer said that he had already paid over $1,100 in hospital and doctors' bills to Glois Grimes's parents. The judge, who might have sent tired old Dr. Dodd to jail, fined him $250 and costs...