Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slice of Life. In Burganj, India, death came to Haji Ghulam Mohammed, 127, married ten times (one wife tried to poison him), a father 32 times (oldest living child 85; youngest...
Advising against pinning hopes on such "terrible weapons as the atomic bomb," President Conant went on to point out that fear of retaliation would not prevent nations from attacking with the bomb. "Poison gas," he said, "was held in check during World War II, not because it was outlawed, but because it was ineffective." The Atomic Bomb, he remarked, is effective...
...Universal) would be a satisfactory scoop of vanilla if it didn't try to be hot-fudge-marshmallow-pecan. The film was originally titled Once Upon a Dream, but Universal's sales department made a firm pronouncement: "Any title with fantasy or the supernatural suggested is poison at the box office." But Once Upon a Dream is still the right name for the picture...
Under the Tsars, Poland saw some horrible pogroms, and, later, the Beck regime was also openly antiSemitic. To this residue of racist poison, during the German occupation, the Nazis added their own anti-Semitic slime. The Germans almost ended Poland's Jewish problem by killing nearly all the Jews. Of 3,500,000 prewar Polish Jews, some 300,000 survive. Most of them are still in Russia, Germany or elsewhere outside the country. Only 80,000 of the Jews who stayed in Poland are left alive...
...York Daily News's poison penman, John Parsons O'Donnell, was caught in an untruth, and had to eat his words. In his Capitol Stuff column, which goes to the News's 2,000,000 readers, a good part of them Jewish, O'Donnell had put forth his own version of why General George S. Patton Jr. had fallen from power and glory. Hinted O'Donnell darkly: a Jewish plot...