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Word: fatale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election morning the first voters to the polls chose the judges. If a Democratic sheriff was in office, he was likely to round up all the Negroes in the calaboose for the day, lest they vote Republican. In the election of 1884, there were two fatal shootings and Election Judge William Howard Taft was one of the very few who went unarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proud Queen | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...controlled by a balanced mechanism consisting of the pancreas, the pituitary and the adrenals. . . . This flatly contradicts the orthodox theory and treatment now commonly used, which is based on the opposite notion that diabetes is caused by a deficiency of gland secretions in the pancreas, thereby causing a fatal increase in the normal sugar content of the blood."-Dr. James Harry Button, Chicago endocrinologist-. in the Illinois Medical Journal last week. What, then, was more simple, if highly hazardous, than to shoot x-rays into the pituitary, which lies under the brain, and the adrenals, which lie on the kidneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-rays for Diabetes | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...share of the new stock at $30 (present price: $36) for each three shares they now hold. Mathieson's regular bankers. Hayden, Stone & Co.. will head a group to underwrite the issue in the usual manner. But Mathieson will not know whether its plunge was fatal until after the stock has been issued and shyster lawyers have had an opportunity to start nuisance suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Plunge | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...come over last spring to act as his adviser, was considering resigning as a protest against the policies afoot, that financiers in London were accusing him of "playing a gigantic poker game" with the dollar; that in Paris famed Economist Frederic Jenny was prophesying, "Not far distant is the fatal moment when Mr. Roosevelt will be faced with the dilemma of chaotic inflation or a return to dollar stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Dollar's Week | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Hitler has received a national mandate from over forty million Germans to pursue his policy of equality for Deutschland and Versailles be damned. It is true that his position is difficult, that he is forced into a stand which may easily lead to a war, and to a fatal war from the angle that Germany cannot afford war and could not, in all probability, find outside support. But it is obvious that he cannot now be deterred. His present position demands a period of loud shouting and of anxious waiting--awaiting a time when the powers will agree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/14/1933 | See Source »

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