Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...
...read with much interest your story on Henry Ford. Regret to find it shot through with the poison of factionalism. Are you making a bid for more readers among labor? Naturally, that will increase your profits. Let's be sincere. Cut out your attitude of cynicism and knife throwing...
From its perch on the towering crags of Buda one dawn last week the Hungarian Foreign Office abruptly announced that Premier Count Paul Teleki had just died of a heart attack. Intimates of the Teleki family whispered that Count Teleki had taken poison. Finally doctors who examined the body signed a one-sentence communiqué: "Premier Teleki committed suicide at dawn April...
Then Leader Pechanatz gravely handed Mrs. Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when...
...find fungicides that would not hurt the crops. During the past decade the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Yonkers, N. Y.) has experimented with almost all the standard elements, but farmers still rely chiefly on compounds of sulphur, mercury and copper. Since 1921 crops have been dusted with poison from airplanes. This is the most perilous branch of commercial aviation...