Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Workers, farmers, Negro and white, The lynching bosses we must fight. Close your fists and raise them high, Labor Defense is our battle cry. Scottsboro boys shall not die, Scottsboro boys shall not die. Workers led by I. L. D.† Will set them free, set them free...
...SCOTTSBORO BOYS SHALL NOT DIE...
...five passed into their second week and approached full term condition, their chances for life became surer. All cried lustily, a good sign. Whispered the mother of the phenomenon, as her swollen legs subsided: ". . . Suis contente. ... If they die, they will go to Heaven, and next year perhaps, we will have another." In the next room waited lactating neighbors to give drachms of their superabundant milk to the quintuplets...
...Flying Is Still Dangerous" in The American Mercury by Kenneth Brown Collings, Wartime Navy flyer, onetime mail pilot, flight instructor and airport manager, author of Flight Hazard. Some of Author Collings' statements: Average age of airline pilots is 32. Average men of 32 engaged in normal ground occupations die at the rate of less than 3 per 1,000 per year. Airline pilots die at the rate of 25 per 1,000. But-the average pilot flies only about 800 hr. per year. Hence...
...California judge named Harry T. Dewhirst won the right to the name House of David. With 300 followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They are vegetarians. They wear no garments of black, the color of death. They believe that non-sinners never die, that there is always a King David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David...