Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuesday the first head had fallen, that of the gaunt Great White Rabbit of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt's Spend-Lend Bill that was proposed at $3,860,000,000 but had been slashed to $1,615,000,000 in the Senate (TIME, July 24, et seq.). In Franklin Roosevelt's biggest legislative defeat yet, the House refused (193-167) even to consider the bill. This was the first time a Roosevelt Congress had turned down pap and pork...
...British Chief of the Imperial General Staff Lord Gort showed no great strategic ability in France but some incredible heroism, for which he won a V. C. But by far the most outstanding War-trained officer now in high command is Maurice Gustave Gamelin. At 66 he is the head of what, by almost unanimous acclaim, is today the world's finest military machine, one which he did much to create. His responsibilities are not only national but international. Supreme Commander of all French armed forces, a title not held by any soldier of France since Napoleon...
Died. Sonyu Otani, 53, onetime chief abbot of the Honganji sect of Japanese Buddhists; in 1937-38 Minister of Overseas Affairs; head of the Japanese-controlled North China Development Co.; of pneumonia; in Kalgan, China...
Birthdays. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 78, wife of the late President, with a party, in Oyster Bay, L. I.; Richard Whitney, 51, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, quietly, in Sing Sing; Hugh Samuel Johnson, 57, columnist and former NRA head, quietly, in Bethany Beach, Del. Said General Johnson: "I sure hate to reach this...
Richard King Mellon, 40, successor to his uncle, the late Andrew William Mellon, as head of the Mellon financial empire, has plenty of chicks but no child. Last week he and his 29-year-old wife, Constance Prosser McCaulley Mellon, adopted a two-months-old boy. To newshawks who begged for the largesse of a look at the child, Father Mellon gave short change...