Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons on the Relief income level (less than $1,000 yearly income for the entire family) are disabled for one week or longer for every one person better off economically...
Arguing that his newest enthusiasm has good chance for success in the U. S., Dr. Potter cited Czechoslovakia's new penal code which provides that a person who "kills on request" receives a five-to-ten-year prison sentence, and he who "kills in sympathy" is liable to three months to five years...
...Skunk Meat." Had it not been for Planter Greene's timely intervention, Millhand Jones might have been the first person to be lynched in the U. S. in 1938. There were eight lynchings in 1937, 13 in 1936. There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators...
...Bromo Quinine hour: "It is such a tissue of libel that the father of lies will have to move over on his throne when the spook of that author arrives. Moreover, it is the frankest kind of Communist propaganda." The General has a standing offer to allow any person attacked in his nightly talks to make a rebuttal on his radio time. Last week at the suggestion of the publisher, Vanguard Press, and with the approval of NBC and the program's sponsors, the General turned his Bromo Quinine hour over to Author Lundberg...
Radio listeners in the U. S. heard gibberish of this sort one day last week, pronounced in a queer, blurred, atonal voice like that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...