Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil help the criminal who injures a policeman or his family. Outside Albany last week Edward ("Fats") McCarthy, "cop killer." was shot in the head and killed by avenging detectives, who were praised, promised promotion for their deed...
...dear friend: I wish it lay in my power to talk with you face to face on the eve of one of the most critical conventions that our party has ever held. . . . I appreciate the high honor. . . . I am a progressive in deed as well as in word in the truest and most Democratic sense. We are in a safe majority . . . if we stand together. . . . I hope history will point to your wise action at Chicago. . . . I shall welcome any suggestions you may have to make and I hope to see you in person very soon. Please accept my assurance...
...Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime president of National City Bank, smart stock poolster presented Scarborough School (Scarborough-on-Hudson, N. Y.) with a deed to the school building and property. Culver Military Academy (Culver, Ind.) also passed from private ownership. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, St. Louis stove manufacturer, Culver has been owned and operated (without profit) by the heirs, who turned over to a trust foundation last week their interests, some $6,000,000 in property and other assets...
Statistics on suicide are, from the nature of the deed; never complete. Fear of God and the insurance companies, desire for burial in hallowed ground and insurance payments to heirs, constrain many a suicide to disguise his act. Commonest disguise is to "fall" or "jump" from a high place, an act for which the New York Times has suggested the ambiguous, legally safe portmanteau word "flump" (TIME, Sept...
Autocratic in word & deed, the Coffee Council cabled last week that they have "definitely and irrevocably" abandoned a plan to pay premiums to U. S. coffee merchants who use more Brazilian coffee...