Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calif, papers, all the out of State papers carried stories about how Mr. Harding was going to or had come over to see us and ask for the cornea. In fact there was so much publicity before any of us heard directly about it, that many condemned men thought it was merely a publicity stunt and therefore distrustful of the whole thing. There were also newspaper stories to the effect the request was made to us through the prison chaplain, but the truth is the only thing we ever got was a form letter with newspaper clipping attached from...
...long list of farm legislation he brought to passage as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. His chief sins against the New Deal were opposing processing taxes, the Court Plan, Wages & Hours, Housing, Anti-Lynching. Last week he eagerly promised to vote with Franklin Roosevelt whenever he thought him right. His personal platform (the same for 30 years): "States rights, white supremacy, tariff for revenue only...
...many even in 1901. The police took Nurse Toppan. In her confession she said she had murdered "for the fun of it." At the insane asylum she became a model inmate, but at first they had to put her in a strait jacket and force-feed her. She thought someone was trying to poison...
Biggest bug in the bonnet of any municipal financier is how much debt his city ought to carry. One school of thought holds that cities should borrow as little as possible, cites Kalamazoo. Mich., which burned its last bond in November 1937. having embarked on a pay-as-you-go policy. The opposite school holds that cities are foolish to pass up the opportunity to make permanent improvements when money is cheap, and especially when Harold Ickes' PWA will give 'outright 45% of the money. Leading middle-of-the-roader is New York City's little Fiorello...
...this point, Viscount Runciman, British mediator who has been hoping to drag out negotiations until autumn, took action. Viscount Runciman had been 15 days in Czechoslovakia without meeting Konrad Henlein, who thought his prestige would be enhanced if he made the British lord call on him. This, the Viscount had refused to do, but in last week's emergency Lord Runciman consented to motor from Prague into the Sudeten Nazi territory and meet Herr Henlein in the castle of Prince Max von Hohenlohe, whose lands extend right up to the German frontier...