Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, whom the cruel misfortune of a single illness deprived of the enjoyment of activities which lesser men take as a matter of course, nothing is dearer than action. Last week, unchained from his desk at the White House, he had his fill of it. He was in Wilmington, Hyde Park, New York City, Washington. Gettysburg. He motored, visited the sick, planned a house, laid a cornerstone, picnicked, orated and dedicated...
...still-undeclared war in China, which Japan once confidently predicted would be a matter of a few months, this week entered its second year, still far from her loudly-announced goal of overthrowing Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government...
Formal court mourning is an expensive undertaking against which many London businesses-notably caterers-are insured. The English court never prescribes mourning for those not of the Royal Family, no matter how close their relationship. Death of the Queen's mother proved no exception. The Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain, announced "no commands for Court mourning will be issued by the King," added that "Their Majesties will observe family mourning as also will members of the Royal households when in attendance upon Their Majesties...
...Manhattan, outspoken Painter Benton professed to regard the affair as "a big joke." This week the board finally decided to renew the contract, held: "No matter what anybody may think of Mr. Benton's book or his painting, there has been no question regarding his ability as an instructor...
...disturbed and his brain starved of oxygen because his mother took too much drug to allay the pains of childbirth. Said Dr. Frederic Schreiber of Detroit: the difference between a living infant with a brain damaged from this cause and one that is born dead is probably only a matter of degree...