Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leader George Lansbury stormed for 40 minutes against "this greatest menace to individual liberty! It would incriminate the Bishop of Birmingham for his sermons against British bombing of helpless tribesmen in Afghanistan. Indeed, what possessor of a copy of Our Savior's blessed Sermon on the Mount would be safe? He might use it to seduce a simple sailor...
...basic problem today is unemployment. Roosevelt, in office for more than a year and a half, has failed as yet to bring substantial relief to those out of work. Disregarding Utopian ideas of perpetual government support of the unemployed, it is safe to say that private corporations must take up the large number of men now idle. The government can't do it all forever. Under the capitalistic system companies refuse to hire men unless they see the possibility of making a profit. Yet to date, the administration has deprecated the profit motive as a guide to business activity...
...lynching. Someone had dragged Farmer Cannidy's young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton and without much fuss removed Claude Neal from the jail...
Lately beefy, foppish Premier Göring has had two paramount worries: 1) Is Reichsführer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Göring because eventually Hitler will...
...December 1789, eight of the Bounty mutineers, under their leader, Fletcher Christian, with 18 Polynesian natives, landed on Pitcairn's Island. Tiny (two miles by one) but isolated and fertile, it looked like a safe refuge from the long arm of the British Government. Safe in that respect it proved to be but at the end of ten years only one man and ten women were left alive; "of the sixteen dead, fifteen had come to violent ends." Principal causes of dissension were women and liquor. There were not enough women to go around; when one of the colony...