Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which normally should number 7,500 per cu. mm. multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least in leukemic children...
...TIME, June 1, 1931); 2) he had snubbed Franklin D. Roosevelt when the Democratic presidential nominee was campaigning in Los Angeles last year (TIME, Oct. 3); 3) he had turned the police department into a corps of "super-snoopers." In defeat Mayor-reject Porter last week threatened to hang on to his job on the ground that Mayor-elect Shaw was not a U. S. citizen. Born in Canada 50 years ago, Frank Shaw was brought to the U. S. at the age of 5 by his father, a pioneer homesteader in Kansas and Colorado. He drummed the Southwest...
...boast that John Bull was the first paper to call Germans "Huns." He gave David Lloyd George his two campaign slogans "HANG THE KAISER!" and "MAKE THE HUN PAY!" No paper was more obliging with atrocity stories; none, when the War was over, quicker to fatten on anti-U. S. prejudice. MORE SWANK FROM THE YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half...
Sent to stamp out Cuba's rebellion in Santa Clara Province, Dictator Machado's strong-arm man Major Arsenio Ortiz last week stamped furiously. Than catching and trying nimble rebels, he found it easier ?o shoot and hang any suspected person he could lay hands on. Such last fortnight were three guards of a U. S.-owned sugar mill at Jatibonico. Ortiz had them slaughtered on suspicion. The company's vice president posted off to Havana to protest to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. Soon Ortiz followed, talked with officials and flew back to the Santa Clara...
...Carnegie International Exhibition (in Pittsburgh): Henri Matisse, greatest survivor of the Post-Impressionists.∙ Matisse is famed, rich, old (63). The climax piece of any modern collection would be a mural done especially by Matisse. He had done no decorative figure in action since 1910. His only two murals hang in Moscow. Dr. Barnes asked Matisse whether he wanted the job. Matisse did. In 1930 he went to work in his Nice studio on a big mural (42 ft. by 15) to fill the spandrels over three windows that open on Dr. Barnes's garden...