Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causes of individual disasters. Last week that system was changed when President Roosevelt approved an amendment to the Air Commerce Act of 1926, giving the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce power to hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, compel testimony under oath. In case of serious or fatal injury, publication of the Department's findings is made mandatory...
With the current verdict that with age he has become more garrulous and less worthwhile. Author Wells snappishly disagrees, preferring himself as he is now. "People are simply warned that there are ideas in my books and advised not to read them, and so a fatal suspicion has wrapped about the later ones. ... It is no good my saying that they are quite as easy to read as the earlier ones and much more timely." Authors are often mistaken about their own work; Author Wells may well be about his. For even readers who have written...
...From what we are able to learn of conditions in the trenches it is not possible to get medical assistance to anyone in time to prevent fatal results. It is necessary to immediately cauterize the wounds in the body or head or to amputate the limbs as there seems to be no antidote that will counteract the poison...
...eleven-year administration (1915-26) of the late Henry Suzzalo. Able in politics as in pedagogy, he wangled generous grants from the Legislature, built up a maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named Roland Hill Hartley. In 1926 Hartley was Governor and Suzzalo found himself...
...Sinclair: We have heard largely one side of the controversy-that of the complainant. . . . The fatal weakness of our Work up to this time . . . centres in not having secured at the very start of our investigation, a thoroughly competent professional staff of men-experts in code law and economic research. . . . But the majority of the Board has not seen fit to approach this investigation from the point of view of careful research and analysis. . . . We have received several thousand complaints . . . from small businessmen who claim they are being strangled under Various codes. . . . Most of the questions raised by the vast...