Word: equality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, delegates to the biennial convention of the 25-year-old National Woman's Party (Mrs. Stephen H. Pell of New York, national chairman) cheered a plan to raise $1,000,000, to campaign for an Equal Rights amendment to the Constitution. *The plan: to sell red, white & blue Lady Liberty stickers, with a man and a woman balanced evenly on scales held (instead of a lawbook) in Liberty's left hand...
...supplied a deposition signed by eleven leading Soviet airmen who called Charles Augustus Lindbergh a "stupid liar, a lackey and a flatterer of German Fascists." "According to information in the highest quarters in London, Paris and Prague," said the Soviet airmen, "the Soviet air fleet is quantitatively at least equal to the combined German and Japanese air forces and is qualitatively much superior...
...paving the way for the Pact of Locarno. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, as he then was, received from King George V a much rarer honor than elevation to the peerage, knighthood in the Order of the Garter, and in British circles this week Mr. Neville Chamberlain was slated to receive equal honors at the hands of King George VI. Birmingham University was at once presented last week with a $50.000 scholarship fund, donated by Midland Publisher Sir Charles Hyde "to commemorate the services for peace of the Prime Minister...
...common man is unchallenged. Six days a week, for an estimated $65,000 a year, in 116 papers reaching nearly 6,000,000 readers, Mister Pegler is invariably irritated, inexhaustibly scornful. Unhampered by coordinated convictions of his own, Pegler applies himself to presidents and peanut vendors with equal zeal and skill. Dissension is his philosophy...
...ideals. And Author Agar, in his best book to date, is more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed...