Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state in TIME, Aug. 17, "If there is one person U. S. War Veterans should cordially dislike, it is Franklin D. Roosevelt." You are correct; they hate him. Of the many veterans I personally know, only an infinitesimal percent will vote for Roosevelt...
Only thoroughly unperturbed person last week was Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, third to have charge of New York's relief machine in a year, whose character was recently gauged by newshawks who asked him where he came from. "From Arkansas," growled the Colonel, "where men are men and women are glad of it.'' Last week he responded in similar vein to a Journal newshawk: "I think this is swell publicity, and the more weaselers we can find, the better pleased I'll be. If there are any dead men on the payrolls, we want to know...
...lead the country!" cried Prisoner Sergei Mrachkovsky, gilding the lily. Even this was capped by Prisoner Kamenev whose second and final lecture at the trial was a deliberate incitement to Communists abroad to go and assassinate Trotsky. "Zinoviev and I are dead!" cried Kamenev. "Trotsky remains the only person to guide terroristic activities against Stalin. The sooner his hands are checked the better." Judge Ulrich, who has the reputation of having handed out more Death sentences than any other jurist in the world, left the court to cogitate with his three assistant judges for seven hours, returned to deliver...
...Pond near North Haverstraw, N. Y. It was a partially decomposed human head. One eye had been punched out, half of the nose severed, the lower jaw slashed. Last July a torso was found in Congers Lake, six miles away. Head and body belonged to the same person whom police surgeons described as an Italian or Jew about 45 years old with curly greying hair and the habit of smoking a pipe on the left side of his mouth. There were no other clews to his identity or his murderer...
Pursuing a bland course through all this excitement, Detectives Harwood and Fenton eventually dig through the intrigues of a bogus reform group, pin the crimes on the least suspectable person in a final melee, which, for those cinemaddicts who want their mysteries solved with explicit completeness, is about the only unsatisfying thing in the picture...