Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draft of the speech approved, Cardinal Mundelein dined, meditated, went to bed. Next morning, a secretary entered the Cardinal's bedchamber to awaken him for his devotions. But in his sleep, heart disease had brought death, as to all men, to George William Mundelein...
...Conant: "Education as usual should be our slogan. If this seems too tame a slogan for these exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...
...merchant-navy man who was not bothered by all this was Maritime Commission Chairman-Admiral Emory Scott Land. On the chance that any time within the next two years Congress might want many more merchantmen than the U. S. now has, particularly merchantmen convertible into aircraft carriers and other handy things to have around in an emergency, Chairman-Admiral Land meant to have ships on hand. His answer to last week's shipbuilding jitters: to shovel out orders for seven ships more to the overworked yards which are currently building merchantmen...
...Mills Logan, 65, since 1931 Democratic Senator from Kentucky; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. Massive, sincere, a quiet liberal, Logan rose from a Kentucky small-town law practice to sit as Chief Justice of the State's Court of Appeals; was ready to fight again next session for his major work-a bill that would provide quick judicial review of administrative agencies' quasi-judicial rulings, the first actively-functioning check on New Deal bureaus...
Germany is the loudest, longest-winded propagandist on the Fourth Front, carrying out the Hitler-inspired rule: "Make it simple, tell them often, make it burn." London is next, then Paris. U. S. S. R.'s mighty Radio Moscow is hard to hear...