Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advantages of his bailiwick, Mayor Frank Hague boasts that "an outstanding feature of Jersey City has been the stability of its municipal administration and the fairness of its policy toward the worker and capital alike." Boss Hague has been mayor for nearly a quarter-century and lately declared without conscious exaggeration: "I am the law." It so happened that Boss Hague was addressing a gathering of church-going constituents on juvenile delinquency when he dropped that Bourbon remark, but it has plagued him ever since in connection with his conception of "fairness" in the treatment of organized labor...
...life which has delayed China's modernization. In the last decade the tempo of modernization has markedly increased, but instead of evaporating, the old culture seems to be forming the basis for a rapidly growing modern nationalism,--as one might expect. Modern China is becoming more and more conscious of its own heritage...
...conscious citizens of Danzig were jubilant. At Schichau's shipyard in the mouth of the Vistula work was proceeding on two great ocean liners, biggest ever to be built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
Dorothy Thompson's unique invitation was typical of N. A. M.'s painfully self-conscious course in self-improvement, undertaken in its efforts to school itself for political maturity and the national leadership which it felt its members must rightly and inevitably inherit. Lengthening their convention from the usual two days to include a third called "Labor Day," the manufacturers turned many an unfamiliar stone in their search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus...
...philosophical asides, This Is My Story traces Mrs. Roosevelt's successful struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, a social conscience, against the heavy inhibitions of a strait-laced socialite environment, awkwardness, homeliness, family cares, fears ranging from burglars to not being able to have babies. Not entirely because of conscious tact, but also, the reader gathers, because her victory was won independently of her strongwilled, busy husband does Mrs. Roosevelt's story portray F. D. R. as the dimmest character...