Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great piece of music, or ranked with the great artists and writers. Says he: Women must always be handicapped in competition with men by the physical facts of life (childbearing, menstruation, etc.) and the necessity of making themselves attractive. He observes that even Soviet Russia, after conducting the greatest equal rights experiment in history, has dropped coeducation, stresses motherhood, abounds in beauty parlors...
...tabloid New York Daily News's "Presidential Battle Page," offering the Democratic and Republican parties equal campaign space in side-by-side columns, was a top feature. Three weeks ago the Daily News started the page again, as usual saying the lid was off, and asking only that combatants accompany libelous material with an indemnity bond. For 17 days the battle raged...
...decade beginning 1930 you have told us that our day is finished, that we can grow no more, and that the future cannot be the equal of the past. But we, the people, do not believe this, and we say to you : give up this vested interest that you have in depression. Open your eyes to the future, help us to build a New World...
This was a program that could rally most Yugoslavs. The federated states, 'six small countries with equal rights within one country, could remove the traditional frictions that had divided the Yugoslavs. It was the solution a generation of Yugoslavs had dreamed of. It promised 7 million members of the Greek Orthodox Church, 5 million Roman Catholics, 1,500,000 Mohammedans more, rather than less, freedom. It held out to foreign capital, which Yugoslavia would sorely need when reconstruction came, the promise that Yugoslavia would be one place in the world where a man could turn a profit. This year...
...snappy phrase. . . . Thus we have John L. Lewis describing Sidney Hillman . . . as 'a Russian pants-maker who is trying to take over the rule of the nation.' Who can think of a single good quip by Sir Robert Borden or Mr. Bennett or Mr. King? . . . Who can equal Mr. Ickes' phrase about the youthful Mr. Dewey 'throwing his diapers into the ring,' or his description of Wendell Willkie as 'the barefoot boy from Wall Street...