Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of these excitements touched the heart of the issue, which remained what Franklin Roosevelt had made it: a specific judgment by Maryland on the past, present and future of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In a memorably heavy vote, Maryland passed this judgment with relatively little disorder for a primary in which feelings had risen so high. Result: Millard E. Tydings unPurged by a ratio...
...Pope Pius XI, who has notably speeded up the process, which formerly took from 25 years to several centuries. One candidacy for sainthood which has moved rapidly is that of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Nov. 8, et ante-). Last month the Sacred Congregation of Rites decreed that Mother Cabrini be beatified and called "Blessed" in St. Peter's in Rome next November-the last step before full sainthood. Two miracles, performed since her death...
Died. Gretchen von Briesen (Mrs. Salomon Stanwood) Menken, 58, most overdressed woman in Manhattan cafe society; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Nearly every year, since 1924, Mrs. Menken dazzled the Beaux-Arts Ball with her costumes. As "Rain," she carried a set of batteries beneath her skirt to light 1,500 tiny bulbs sprinkled on her dress, wore a red neon headgear which flashed intermittent lightning. As "The Empire State Building Plans'' she wore T-squares and French scrolls around her neck, pencils and empty India ink bottles on her hat. For the New York World...
...Giles Wetherill's money is in peat-producing but his heart is in knife-collecting, designing and throwing. Wealthy sportsmen and maharajas have their hunting knives custom-made by him. He can pin a squirrel to a tree at 20 feet...
Died. Aylmer Maude, 80, friend, biographer and translator of the works of Russia's late great Writer Leo Tolstoy; after a heart attack; at Great Baddow, Essex, England...