Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to take this occasion to say that the Governor of Alabama and the attorney general of Alabama feel very keenly about this matter; that we are most anxious that the outside world know that the Alabama State officials who are responsible in law for prosecuting cases of this character are doing their duty and will continue...
...Fiorello LaGuardia. The President replied: "Ha! ha! ha!" When this was reported to New York's bumbling Senator, he cracked back: "I'm delighted if the idea gave him a chance to laugh. If he got enjoyment, that's fine. He needs it. As a health matter it's a good thing to laugh...
...covers, was offered as a de luxe President's edition at $250 a copy. Letters went out urging people to buy, accompanied by contracts, suggestively filled out for the purchase of four copies for $1,000. In case a purchaser did not wish to keep this costly reading matter, the contract provided that he might turn over his copy to the Democratic National Committee ''for distribution by them as they see fit" (presumably for resale at a second profit...
...heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania is suffering from a serious liver complaint following gastric hemorrhages and an attack of grippe. Announced Professor Eppinger...
...Fascism with ... its official press, its ventriloquist stage, is a matter of concern to men whose work demands, as the basic condition of its existence, freedom to publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...