Word: savers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the U. S. 20,000 persons kill themselves each year. To deter them from suicide is the prime purpose in the life of Rev. Dr. Harry Marsh Warren of Manhattan, founder-president of the Save-a-Life League. To the Civitan International meeting in Toronto Life-Saver Warren declared: "Among professional men physicians are most inclined to take their own lives. . . . Not more than one-third of those who kill themselves are mentally deranged. Unmarried mothers have the greatest propensity for suicide. Love is the most terrible thing in the world. . . . Women have gone to the dogs...
...scandal, never a doubt was cast on Jean Chiappe's honesty. No direct evidence has yet been produced, but he did know Alex Stavisky well enough to sit in his box at a theatre. Socialists yelled for his head. Premier Daladier demanded his resignation, but as a face-saver offered him the Governor Generalship of Morocco. The telephone connection was very bad. "Mon Dieu!" cried Premier Daladier to the Cabinet Members in his office, "he refuses and says he will be in the street tonight." The Cabinet decided that Chiappe was going to lead a riot in person...
...practical statesman, there was but one thing for Adolf Hitler to do, back down, but how could he do it without losing face at home? At this point the world disarmament message of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, May 22) came as a life saver. President Roosevelt had demanded immediate action by all the nations to save the world from chaos. Adolf Hitler's speech might be not a change in policy, but a definite offer in response to a definite request. No sooner was the first official translation off the wires than it was rushed to Hitler's desk...
...Philosopher Ortega y Gasset admits, anything today rather than philosophers, this penetrating analysis of the world's state is not economic. No fatalist, Ortega y Gasset, searcher for the truth about Western civilization, believes that something may still be done with the truth when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...
...Thelma Todd), the college widow. Groucho, Chico and Harpo also attempt to become familiar with Miss Bailey. She tries to steal the signals of the Huxley football team from President Groucho by taking him for a ride in a canoe. Groucho lets her paddle, throws her a candy life-saver when she falls out. Presently, Chico and Harpo go to kidnap the two best players of the rival football team. The football players kidnap Chico and Harpo. Harpo and Chico saw their way out. Half naked, they drive to the game in a perambulating garbage can that resembles a chariot...