Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richer or poorer, Dr. Funk's country was last week certainly getting hungrier. Butter, cream, other fats, some meats are rationed in Germany. Eggs, common vegetables often disappear from market. Non-nutritive but ingenious excuses are left in their place by the Propaganda Ministry. A recent onion shortage was blamed on an "onion corner" by "international Jewry." Last week Germany was being given excuses instead of coffee...
...hardheaded psychiatrists or softhearted laymen realized that: 1) mercy killings now occur in the U. S. at the rate of one a week; 2) mercy killers are almost never convicted; 3) stiffest penalty imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict Louis Greenfield, it will add one more brick to the foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will...
...partisanship in the Spanish war, the Pope followed the advice of his Spanish bishops. But a majority of U. S. Catholics, according to a recent Gallup poll, do not see eye to eye with the Holy Father and the Spanish hierarchy. The Gallup figures: 58% of Catholics who take sides favor Franco, about 33% of all Catholics sympathize with neither side; thus, Franco partisans number only some 38% of U. S. Catholics, and in the general population they are even fewer...
...recent years big-time bankers have been accustomed to a certain amount of baiting at stockholders' meetings. Last week about the only traces of it came in occasional queries about loans to Richard Whitney or McKesson & Robbins...
...families and old legends, its tireless political disputes, its pleasant wooden dwellings, nice lawns, and some of the softest Southern accents in the South. It has new pavements and filling stations painted in tropical colors, new bright-fronted chain stores which are outward evidence of recent community change...