Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patron saint of those condemned to death is St. Dismas, the "Good Thief," who was crucified alongside Jesus and asked the Lord to remember him in Heaven. In the U. S., Dismas was a much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took him up, wrote an annual piece about him (TIME, March 6). Last Sunday Most Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y., laid the cornerstone of the first U. S. church dedicated to Dismas. Its location: inside the north gate of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. Prisoners...
...Wendell Willkie showed every sign of feeling just about as much defeated as a grizzly bear on a rampage. Willkie is one of the few businessmen who, after trading punches with the New Deal, appeared to have as much fight left in him as his New Deal opponent. Fortnight ago when it gave the round to Lilienthal by authorizing an issue of bonds for the purchase of Tennessee Electric Power.* Congress-in much the same truculent mood as last week-carefully earmarked the money in the bill, thus ending the days of blank checks for TVA. Moreover, in announcing...
...office come 500 letters weekly, all urging him to keep up the fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House. On these Wendell Willkie casts an interested' but realistic eye. Stamped with anti-New Deal mark, he is still too much of a liberal to suit old-line Republicans. When friends ask him whether he intends to be a candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be a sucker...
When a carload of logs goes through a pulp mill, half of it (the fiber) comes out as pulp (for paper). The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid. To U. S. paper mills this waste was as much a nuisance as used razor blades to ordinary citizens. Poured into rivers at the rate of 3,000,000 tons a year, it absorbed the free oxygen in the water, impairing fishing and polluting streams...
...make an enemy of Italy over the Abyssinian business, instead of adopting Sir Samuel Hoare's sensible scheme for splitting Abyssinia between Italy, France and ourselves, has failed to destroy Italian friendliness. But then, naturally, the Italian people do not read English newspapers, whereby they are spared much...