Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazines, it provided in Gibson and his colleagues a commentary on manners that was not merely destructive. For the Gibson Girl and the Gibson Man, however they may "date" in modern eyes, stood as an ideal to young Americans of the nineties. But bit by bit "Life" had to die because it could not change its temper when chafing-dishes were banished from the sideboards of America for juniper drops and bitters. All that was still vital in "Life" was appropriated five years ago by the "New Yorker," and seasoned with the urbanities of a new Manhattan cocktail...
...fight by the efforts of the cartoonist Thomas Nast. And in the turbulent days of the Roosevelt campaigns, its drawings by Kemble crystallized the opinion of the opposition. But because "Harper's" could not remake its pages in the image of Baron Steiehen or Covarrubias, it had to die...
...announced: "Much as I am personally sorry for it, it seems that some form of tax legislation will be necessary." Senator Fess, G. O. P. chairman,* declared: "The budget must be balanced even if we are compelled to take drastic measures such as was done in England." Only die-hard dissenter among important Republicans was ultra-conservative Congressman Hawley, chairman of the last House Ways & Means Committee. Moaned he: "I'm up in the air about taxes. I'd hoped we wouldn't have to increase them...
...Maybe they die...
Left. By Richard Teller Crane Jr., president of Crane Co. (plumbing) who died three weeks ago (TIME. Nov., 16): an estate estimated at $50,000,000, of which more than $1,200,000 goes to 4,000 old Crane employes. Amounts depend upon length of service, from ten years upwards, and upon whether the employe retained all of the stock Mr. Crane gave away in 1925, 1927, 1930; employes who disposed of all their stock (quoted now at $17) get nothing. Residue of the estate forms a trust fund for Mrs. Florence Crane, the widow, and Cornelius and Florence Crane...