Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education by the Federal Government. . . ." Only dissenter was Indiana's Townsend, who cracked back: "The Federal Government certainly never did the State of Indiana any harm when it meddled with roads...
...million and a half panic-stricken Chinese refugees had surged by last week, some with cholera, some with expected smallpox and all with ravenous stomachs. "They constitute a menace to the safety of Shanghai on a par with the menace of the war itself. . . . God alone knows what will happen!" groaned International Settlement Municipal Councilman W. H. Plant. "The public little realizes the dangers Shanghai is facing. . . . These 1,500,000 people are evidently going to remain indefinitely. Food riots, epidemics and disease seem certain...
President Roosevelt, the Pacific Coast publisher feels, consulted virtually no one about the appointment. "I happen to know for a fact," he said, "that Black himself did not know he was even being considered until about 24 hours before the nomination was sent to the Senate." The Klan issue, he declared, was discussed but briefly during the Senate confirmation, and the fact that the Administration rushed the upper House's proceedings "won't help either...
...stream of big cars. Across the terrace of the Roosevelt house marched a parade of important visitors. As they came out, after talking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, there was gloomy information for the press. Said Financier Bernard Baruch, just back from abroad: "Europe is a tinderbox. Anything can happen." Said ordinarily cheerful Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, of the situation in general: "I can't see anything that is very promising." With two wars and a stockmarket slump to worry about between visitors, Franklin Delano Roosevelt presently absorbed his callers' point of view...
...fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...