Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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The general was astounded. He had called at what he feared would be the death bed of his chief. Day before a young fanatic, one Tameo Sagoya, had put a bullet into the Prime Minister's abdomen, pierced the small intestine. In the cir cumstances it was remarkable that...
Red had won spectacularly, but twice as sensational was the win of Brown. In the last Reichstag there was a "joke party" of twelve deputies, headed by Austrian-born Herr Adolf Hitler, crony of General Erich von Ludendorv with whom he spilled Bavarian blood in 1923 trying to stage a...
Directly in charge of Dry work under Enforcer-in-Chief Mitchell, was Assistant Attorney General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry...
Student prohibition polls give the lie to the college presidents who say that drinking is not an important question. But most of them, because they ask for critical opinion where none is possible, are of small value in a pragmatic investigation of conditions. We favor discussion, if it is informed...
Last August four physicians of the Russell Sage Institute at Bellevue Hospital, New York, announced after three months deliberation that Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson, Arctic explorers, had not harmed themselves by living on an all-meat diet for one year and ten days. Said the physicians: "In general, white...