Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems wholly unfitting in presenting so curt and terse a description of a man whose whole life was devoted and sacrificed to the happiness and welfare of young boys, that TIME should attempt to destroy with one malicious and ill-chosen word the work and efforts of a lifetime of such an outstanding public servant, both as friend and clergyman...
...basis for future legislation, the President sent Congress the National Resources Committee's 120,000-word report on a long-range plan recommending Federal, State and municipal expenditure of $2,100,000,000 over the next six years for flood control, irrigation and navigation improvement all over the U. S. Four days later, the President followed up the committee's report with a message of his own, calling for a comprehensive study of developing and preserving U. S. forests...
...hours and 81 pages of testimony later, weary Franklin Roosevelt had uncovered neither political dynamite nor very much else, told the directors to give him further "facts" a week later either in person or in writing. Breaking his silence, Chairman Morgan had the last word: "I personally want to thank the President very much for the fine consideration he has shown...
...including the Duke of Windsor's Jewish ear specialist, Professor Heinrich Neumann and Vienna's Aryan Mayor Richard Schmitz. New laws on all sorts of subjects, including complicated economic regulations, were being promulgated by simply reading them over the radio. Frantic Viennese businessmen strained to catch each word. What had been the Austro-German frontier was swept away, thus abolishing customs duties; German-Austrians learned the economy of their country had been meshed with the Göring Four-Year Plan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936); and April 10 was set as the date on which "the German...
...sentence in important Soviet cases must be wholly in the holograph of the presiding judge, who can thus be held personally responsible by Stalin for every word and punctuation mark. Last week Judicial Field Marshal Vasily Ulrikh, delivering the sentence of the Soviet Supreme Court upon 21 Russian civilians, read clear through his long manuscript without once looking up at any of the 18 he condemned to death,* or the three he sentenced to imprisonment.† The sentence was delivered at 4:30 a. m. and out went the three judges quickly into the dead of night...