Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment was first announced January 26, 1935, so that its first applications will not be overmuch of a shock to the class of 1937 and 1938. They have been warned...
...criticism of the present Act is not that its purpose is bad. It is that this Act will involve a cruel disappointment for those of our people least able to bear the shock of disappointment. . . . I will not promise the moon. I promise only what I know can be performed : Economy, a living pension, and such security as can be provided by a generous people...
Besides the shock of having Senator Couzens badly beaten for trying to cross party lines and espouse the cause of Franklin Roosevelt, New Dealers had another in the Democratic primary for Senator. Representative Prentiss M. Brown of St. Ignace in upper Michigan, while not well-known throughout the State, was expected to win handily. Opposed by Louis B. Ward, Father Coughlin's onetime Washington lobbyist, Representative Brown polled only 124,000 votes, about 4,000 more than the Coughlinite...
...this must work against giving credence to McMahon. On the other hand, numerous European observers consider that the fanatic Nazi secret terror squads who have done so many murders in Eastern Europe work on the assumption that Germany has nothing to lose and something to gain from any sudden shock to one of the regimes with whom Adolf Hitler is trying to make headway with his demands for colonies and land. Frequent have been charges that Nazis instigated the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander. Sick almost unto death of a strange poison lay last week Rumania's greatest anti...
Died, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, First Baron Moynihan of Leeds, 70, famed British surgeon; of shock following the death of his wife; in Leeds, England. International authority on cancer. Lord Moynihan twice achieved notoriety: in 1929 when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds...