Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scared Socialists. Six months ago the electoral victories of Fascist Hitler and the march of his 107 brown-shirted deputies into the Reichstag seemed to doom the Bruning Cabinet to the fate of Humpty Dumpty...
...Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington...
...given their employes any warning, any chance to take the papers over and keep them running. Someone suggested that the employes band together now-surely the money could be found to save the Worlds from extinction and, worse, from chain journalism. The staff rallied swiftly. Like the foreword of doom on the preceding day, the call swept through the building, dispelling for the time the depression that hung there, bringing enthusiastic response from all departments. Executives pledged thousands; reporters put themselves down for hundreds ; copy boys telephoned their mothers to ask if they might subscribe $10. City Editor Jim Barrett...
...pledge rigorously to abstain from "packing"?i. e. signing up their prospective members before the annual official calling week?a perennial campus scandal. The Yale Daily News pointed out that the fraternities did well to sign a pledge: one false step might "consign them to unenviable and irreconcilable doom...
...issue on which the Cabinet was defeated last week was an amendment to the school attendance bill. Twenty-six Laborites bolted their party to vote for it. With this gaping split in his ranks Scot MacDonald is clinging by his fingertips to the crackling rim of Doom...