Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland provides a sort of answer to the nervous Italian question, "After Mussolini, what?" Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski has been dead since May. but the Polish Dictatorship last week remained serenely alive and firm. Called to vote acceptance or rejection of a Parliamentary slate selected by the Warsaw Government, Poles have just voted acceptance, though 60% of the high-spirited Polish electorate remained away from the polls and three Poles were killed in election shindies. Last week President Ignatz Moscicki, who was to Marshal Pilsudski about what Italy's King is to her Dictator, hailed a stirring and significant...
Always frail and nervous, Ethelbert Nevin took to drink, died of apoplexy in New Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...
Since 1932 most Tennessee teachers have met or heard of a small, nervous promoter named Charles George Pfab. Few of them knew that versatile Mr. Pfab was a registered pharmacist, a onetime professional baseballer, an organizer of a Denver insurance company. They did know that Promoter Pfab's current venture was the high-sounding National Educators' Mutual Association, which sold ''endowment bonds" to teachers. The Pfab scheme was simple and forthright, if not generous. In return for $750 in cash, a teacher would receive a bond redeemable in ten years for $1,000 in cash plus...
...calm the initial panic produced last week by Stalin's new order, nervous Soviet citizens were assured that this time the Government will be more lenient in probing for enemies. Also, whereas Red passports have previously been for three years, the new ones will be issued for five years, a major Soviet boon...
Parents of the nation pestered Manhattan's nervous little Dr. Maurice Brodie for his much-publicized vaccine of which he has issued some 6,000 doses. But because he gets only ten doses out of each $15 rhesus monkey imported from India, he has had to deny vaccine requisitions right & left. Dr. Brodie does not claim that his vaccine is the definitive preventive of infantile paralysis and other physicians will not concede its validity until after some 50,000 children have been inoculated and their resistance to the disease adequately tested. On the other hand, the vaccine does...