Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year Pensioner Gasque began to outpropose Pensioner Rankin. While Mr. Rankin languished with laryngitis, shrewd Mr. Gasque assaulted the Treasury with no less than nine new bills. But last week found Mr. Gasque bedded in Walter Reed Hospital with a reported heart attack and Mr. Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders...
...official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned the neighborhood of the station into an inferno...
Died. Andrew Michalacopoulos, 63, onetime (1924) Premier of Greece; of heart disease. A leader in Greece's Conservative Democratic Party and a Cabinet member for more than a decade all told, he last month was exiled to one of Greece's tiny islands in the Aegean Sea for "trying to undermine the country's finances, foreign policy and public order by secretly circulating libelous leaflets...
Died. Dr. Louis William Stern, 67, German emigré, onetime (1916-33) director of the Psychological Institute at Hamburg University, since 1934 professor of psychology at Duke University; of a heart attack; in Durham. N. C. One of the world's leading psychologists, Dr. Stern was credited with having originated the idea of I. Q. (intelligence quotient) tests...
Died. Walter Scott, 70, Canadian newspaper publisher and first Premier of Saskatchewan (1905-16); of heart disease; in Guelph...