Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Turner, 96, who was rejected by Union Army doctors in 1861 on the grounds that he had but a short time to live; in Mount Vernon, Ill. In 1896 Turner made a vow never to shave until William Jennings Bryan became President, went bearded to his grave...
...Dear German reader: I am writing you because I want peace. . . . Can you defeat us in a war? It would have to be a short war, a lightning war, as even your experts admit. It is said that you will bomb London from the air. All right, so what? . . . I admit that you could kill about 300,000 civilians. Certainly, if you think that over, you will realize that that will make you lose the war. Germany's name will stink to high heaven from north pole to south pole and it would draw the Americans into...
...Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor. Born 38 years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing short stories. Unwilling to capitalize on his father's fame, he used the pseudonym of "John Le Bar." Liberty found out who he was some years ago; since then he has signed his own name to his fiction...
Anything but a politico is new Assistant Currie. Short, Scottish Nova Scotian Currie went to the London School of Economics, thence to graduate work at Harvard. Duly Ph.D.'d, he taught Harvard boys from 1927 to 1934 that the purpose of business is profit. In 1934, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s then economic soothsayer (and still his privy counselor), conservative Chicago Professor Jacob (Balanced Budget) Viner, induced Currie to leave Harvard, made him his assistant. Later that year, Chairman Marriner Stoddard (Unbalanced Budget) Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board spotted Currie for his technical qualifications, made him Assistant...
...Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...