Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good Intentions. When the 75th Congress met last January the Democratic Party had a bigger majority than any party in the history of the U. S.-75 of 96 Senators, 333 of 435 Representatives. Moreover the great majority of the Majority had goodwill towards Franklin Roosevelt. The only sour note was every politician's knowledge that overwhelming majorities, like oversized amoebas, tend to split. On Feb. 5, Franklin Roosevelt dramatically disclosed his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court and the Majority began to disintegrate. The good intentions of Congress towards the President's legislative program were...
...what was called the first actual trial on charges of spreading disease germs in warfare, two Frenchmen. Jean Boujennec and Louis Chabrat, were arraigned last week before a Rightist court martial at Pamplona. The Court took note of their confession that they had been paid $3.750, inspected tubes found on them said to contain typhoid and sleeping-sickness germs and viruses. Although Death was the prompt sentence of the court martial. President Franco intervened, delayed the Frenchmen's execution "pending an international inquiry." With Spain's civil war in its 13th month, neither side had yet used poison...
...Last week's gloomy N. A. D. convention finally closed on a note of cheer, when all 2,000 delegates waved approval of this lyrical resolution: "Whereas, some of our schools for the deaf, which should lead in the preservation and use of the facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient...
About three years ago, Hollywood, always on the lookout for new and interesting personalities, began to take note of one who called himself John Montague. Handsome, debonair and genial, Montague would have been a welcome addition to Hollywood for his social talents alone. He had other ones as well. He was so modest that, in a community where a private telephone number is considered the ultimate in self-effacement, he not only demurely refused to reveal the source of his apparently lavish income but firmly refused to have his picture taken, politely smashing the cameras of photographers who tried...
...been enough to make him go to pieces. But it has never occurred to him that a child might turn up. Servants get hold of the first clues. With these and Silburians' devious skill in putting two & two together-the Canon's increasing nervousness, physical resemblances, further note-comparing by returned English tourists-the news soon gets around. After hearing the Canon"s full confession (a mixture of contrition and lyricism about nude bathing in a mountain stream), Dean Mallinson makes a heroic effort to spike the gossip. For a time he thinks he has suc- ceeded...