Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodworth made such a public spectacle of the affair that public aversion was aroused. Hanging Indians was one thing, hanging whites another. Eight years later, just across the border, Canada hanged a man subsequently proved innocent. Eight years after that, Michigan startled the world by declaring against capital punishment except for traitors...
...There is no magic in the formula of 'Federally financed' public works. The National Government has not tapped some mysterious source of funds, or taken money from a box where it was stored for a rainy day. The National Government has no spending power whatever except that which it acquires by taxing its citizens, and every dollar in 'Federal funds' that has been received by 'Kentucky and other States' will be repaid by the people of Kentucky and the other States-with interest. There is no Santa Claus in Washington...
...undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken four months after the outbreak at Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior, as the seat...
...Cronin, Bill Dickey, faced only ten batters, required only 31 pitches, allowed only one hit (single). With Pitcher Bill Lee of the Cubs, the National Leaguers, who scored a run in the very first inning, continued to humble the highly favored Americans, who had beaten them every year except 1936 and had jocularly referred to them as "minor leaguers." Even when the Americans finally succeeded in getting the bases loaded in the seventh, Tiger Rudy York, homerun specialist, proceeded to strike out. In fact, the American Leaguers, at the last possible moment, just escaped the stigma of being the only...
...would aviation have been industry as sure of a "My jabber of cheery answering echoes. For, after putting the finishing touches on the ultimate reform to grow out of the 1934 unpleasantness, he had brought into being a Civil Aeronautics Authority independent of all other branches of the Government except the White House itself, headed by a business man, peopled with non-political experts, and charged with "encouragement and development of an air-transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the U. S.. of the defense." Postal Service, Regulations...