Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau summoned reporters for a rare joint press conference...
...rare because the other conferee was Chief William Herman Moran of the Secret Service who practically never gives interviews. For 54 of his 72 years, Chief Moran had helped guard U. S. Presidents' lives and the nation's securities and currency. Head of the department since 1918, he successfully shouldered the grave responsibility for the safety of Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. Due to retire at 70, Chief Moran's tenure had twice been prolonged by President Roosevelt's decree. It could be prolonged no further...
Doctors attributed leukaemia, a rare blood disease, as the cause of death. This disease had no connection with the injuries received in the assault...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week came a rare pleasure. The Supreme Court has long seemed bent on limiting his authority, denying him powers which Congress was glad to yield. NRA and the Oil Code were both adjudged unconstitutional delegations of legislative power to the Executive. Last week the Court, sounding not unlike a Psalmist lauding the Almighty, proclaimed the President's supreme might & majesty in a "vast external realm...
That deeply grieving widower, young King Leopold III, had his private secretary call correspondents to the Royal Palace last week, made a denial as rare as Queen Mary's one & only (TIME, Dec. 21). "His Majesty is greatly disturbed over reports carried in an English Sunday newspaper that His Majesty is engaged to marry a niece of the King of Denmark," said the private secretary. "I am instructed to make formal denial of this rumor and all similar rumors. That is all, gentlemen. I need not remind you that various news sources in the past month have set afloat...