Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As Upton Sinclair once wrote: "When a man dies after three days without food, he dies of fright, not starvation. Unless that three days follows months of malnutrition and semi-starvation. . . ."
As passed by the House the Dies bill authorized the Government to accept silver from foreign nations above the world market price in payment for U. S. agricultural surpluses. When the Senate Agriculture Committee got through with the bill, surpluses became a secondary consideration. As amended, the bill directed the...
His effort was not wholly successful. Senator McCarran remarked afterwards: "We got very little consolation out of the meeting." The silverites went off to put their heads together, to decide whether they should try to buck the White House or bow to its will. Two days later 15 members of...
The second feature. "Dawn to Dawn," was known earlier in its life as "The Black Dawn." Filmed against the solomn background of a desolate middle- western farm it is a profoundly stirring drama. The farmer, an invalid in mind and body, has developed a powerful and selfish love for his...
An old judge dies and, finding heaven uncongenial, comes back to earth in time to go with his body to the grave.