Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Negroes elected to serve in legislative chambers with white men are noticeable only because they are black or because they blatantly insist on their race's rights. Oscar De Priest and his successor, Arthur Mitchell, only two Negroes elected to the U. S. Congress since Reconstruction, rated far below average in ability. Not so Homer Brown. Quiet, effective, popular, he is sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation...
Moseley, who urged that the right to vote and hold office be denied American Jews affiliating themselves with organized word Jewry, earlier expressed suspicion of drinking water provided by the committee, saying that he does not trust the group "too far" and adding that previous threats on his life have made him extremely cautious...
...also hoped that there will be far more extensive coaching facilities. These will enable the Rifle Team to make greater progress and possibly letters may be given within a few years by the H. A. A. Thus Riflery will become a fully authorized minor sport with far larger membership and equipment...
...Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being set up for flight this week in Java. Altogether 340 B-10s rolled out through the factory doors, to be flown to nearby purchasers, or to be packed in crates for overseas shipment. They were so far ahead of bombers of the day that they won Builder Martin the Collier Trophy...
...Good Will, whose desire to report the whole life of his time in one novel has carried his book to its 15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean...