Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland, Calif., firemen discovered they could not move Invalid P. J. Evans from his burning home. They covered him with a rubber sheet, supplied him with an oxygen tank to prevent suffocation, put out the fire...
...traveling alone in a first-class compartment when the conductor said he wanted the compartment himself. When the newspaper woman ordered out the conductor he declared her ticket invalid, demanded payment and tried to seize her baggage. The young American woman defended her property with her fists and landed a straight left that knocked out the conductor. While he lay unconscious on the floor Miss Robinson completed a story on which she had been engaged and on her arrival at the station of Loges she handed him over to the police...
This agreement was supposed to link Reparations with Disarmament, President secretly agreeing to cancellation of a great part of what Europe owes the U. S. in return for European adoption of his disarmament proposals. If there was such a "gentleman's agreement" last week it is invalid. Congress has tied the Administration's hands, explicitly forbidding cancellation of another cent (TIME, Dec. 3) Congress might reverse itself, but public opinion throughout Europe seemed firmly and dangerously credulous of the "gentleman's agreement...
...rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...