Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Common, for the first time in history, was closed to public orators. Order there and elsewhere was maintained by the full Boston police force on 24-hour duty. Riot squads were equipped with automatic rifles, hand grenades, tear bombs. Exciting looking characters were immediately boxed in by police and marched off "to protect them from mob violence...
...training of police forces is adequate. . . . There are many cases ... in which the witnesses refuse to tell what they know, very often from a fear of the consequences at the hands either of the defendant or his friends. . . . This condition is especially true in what have received the common name of bootleg murders. Even when the witnesses are willing to testify, perjury is one of the most common offenses in the criminal court...
...Great Powers demanded for themselves permanence in the League Council, it was not in order to impose their will on little peoples, but to place their strength at the service of common decisions. When France abandons this conception she is unfaithful to her ideals and traditions as well as to her interests. She is condemning herself to lose her place as leader in Europe...
...last week an oath: "I, Eamon De Valera, do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established and that I will be faithful to His Majesty, King George V, his heirs and successors by law, in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the group of nations forming the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...greatest artist in the world. Being a Socialist, Artist Rivera subscribes to the idea, "From those according to their ability, to those according to their need." Therefore, he painted the patio (inside court) of the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City, refusing all recompense above a common laborer's wage. There are 138 murals in the court. Most of them describe feasts, ceremonies, daily employments, of native Indians. Some show U. S. millionaires drinking champagne (except John D. Rockefeller, who sips milk). The Mexican Minister of Finance is pic tured eating gold pieces. Little is the recognition given...