Word: moribundity
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...Roosevelt Administration to "go to hell" before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, a Women's Committee of Louisiana, composed mostly of New Orleans socialites and headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sat down to write a telegram. It was addressed to the five members of the moribund Senate committee assigned to investigate the malodorous election of John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long Times-Picayune, used strong language in an effort to rouse the lethargic Senators. Last week she made public a reply from...
Garr Fallson headed west for Prairie City and his career. He was making good money there, booming worthless real estate and running a crooked lottery until his partners, whom he had tried to cheat, exposed him. He moved on, established himself in Mineral City, and bought a moribund newspaper, The Chronicle. Garr took to yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want...
...marbled halls of Herbert Hoover's monument, the new Department of Commerce Building, both phases of the Recovery Act are being administered. Last week movers were cluttering up its halls with furniture from the offices of the moribund R. F. C. Pert young clerks by the score were inking up rubber stamps and, like hungry buzzards, Congressmen had already scented out the headquarters of the government's newest and grandest handout...
...glad to take care of the old President's special friend. President Hoover looked happy for the first and only time on that ride up Capitol Hill. Last week President Roosevelt kept his March 4 promise by appointing Mr. New ton to be a Republican member of the moribund Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The job pays $9,000 per year. Though Nebraska's Norris called the nomination a "slap in the face to all progressive Republicans," the Senate confirmed...
...about all that is left of the Four-Power Pact after an emasculation which Il Duce (once an editor) described last week as "editing." To friends of Disarmament the Mussolini Pact in its final form did seem, however, to sound indirectly the doom of the Disarmament Conference, moribund for the past 16 months. "Should questions . . . remain in suspense on conclusion of that Conference," reads Article III of Il Patto a Quattro, the signatories "reserve the right to re-examine these questions between themselves . . . with a view to insuring their solution through the appropriate channels." That Dictator Mussolini has no patience...