Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granted that flying conditions were poor; granted that army fliers lack experience in blind and instrument piloting, radio beacon landing; granted that the government's aeroplanes were some years behind the civilian transport machines in efficient performances--that may be valid excuse for their poor performance in carrying the mails, but it would be small consolation had the emergency been one which could not be controlled by executive order or opposition legislation. The individual army pilots lack neither courage or ability, but the equipment, training, and morale of that service is far below the standards of practical preparedness...
...college lately of the changing trends of education. There has been much said at Harvard on the subject of building up a faculty of superior minds who will be capable of teaching the best of the younger brains which are to be drawn to this institution. One cannot be blind to the fact that changes have been in progress throughout the University since the beginning of the year, and that they are the changes of a radical nature which denote the new deal. The University is in the hands of a group of younger minds who are indeed awake...
...resist stubbornly and blockheadedly to the very last any effort to change the evil state of affairs in America which Roosevelt is so admirably battling. Your colored reporting on the Morgan testimony was revolting. Your effort to work up sympathy for an old -* rolling in money who was too blind and grasping to contribute toward the expenses of the very government which was trying to prevent his kind from being exterminated was disgusting, and unfortunately there are more counts against you of the same nature...
When his secretary read the list aloud to blind Senator Gore, that Oklahoman tapped his way on to the Senate floor to introduce an amendment to the Revenue Bill placing a tax of 80% on all salaries and bonuses over $75,000 per year. Said he: "I have received approval of my program ... in telegrams received from hundreds of stockholders who have received no income . . . while the officers of non-paying corporations lived in luxury on fat salaries and huge bonuses...
...York City the newsstands, of which there are some forty thousand, were set aside as positions for the disabled. The blind and crippled were supposed to have preference. LaGuardia discovered that these posts were bought and sold, not distributed to those who had a legal right to them, but allotted to the highest bidder. The machinery behind this petty manipulation masks itself under the pious title of The New York Newsdealers' Protective and Benevolent Association, directed by a common gangster named Jake Sbar. The price tag on a newsstand ranges from one thousand to eighteen thousand, and once the cash...