Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seizure. Next morning, as U.S. District Judge William H. Holly mounted his bench in Chicago, he carried a newspaper clipping in his hand. The news, he said somewhat sadly, made any decision from him unnecessary. Forthwith, he ordered all copies of his decision destroyed. His secretary told reporters, with equal sadness, that it was "a literary...
During March and April cash-in of bonds hit a new high, sales were the lowest since November 1942. Over $450,000,000 worth of bonds were cashed in. At that rate, three months' redemptions equal nearly one month's purchases. Thus, on the eve of invasion, Americans at home were backing the attack by taking three steps forward, one back...
...history of jurisprudence in the U.S. everyone has been equal under the law until the Wagner Act dispelled this privilege...
...impatiently flung his farm-hardened hands about in gestures he had long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...
...reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling...