Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admire Roosevelt. Do you wish to know why I admire him? I admire him because he is so bold, because he is also something of a dictator, not in the sense that I am a dictator. . . . He is what I should describe as a social dictator. . . . He concentrates in his hands all the power possible under your system in order to dictate social justice...
...living with his wife in a two-room cabin in Hancock County, only county in Tennessee which has no telephones, no telegraph, not a foot of paved highway. Said Preacher Lamb, who for some years has lived only a mile away from the Winstead family: "I didn't know she was so young. Nine's a little early. Anyway, they had a license and she told me she was old enough to know her own mind. . . . It's hard to get bread and meat in this section, so I thought so long as some other...
...makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that pestered I can't plant my tobacco crop nor git no work done. All I know is they ain't goin' to take Eunice away 'thout it's over my dead body." Eunice's mother-a grandmother at 33 -explained that a neighboring family had "put the peep" on. her 16-year-old son Herbie who wished to marry Clarey Johns...
...flock pronounce it) has been a potent one. Strictest disciplinarian of the four U. S. Cardinals, he rules his clergy with an iron hand, insists on punctuality, obedience, deference. To a young shipboard visitor on his recent trip he growled: "Boy, take off your cap!" Philadelphia newspapers know better than to print anything the Archbishop might take offense at, for a boycott may fall such as once forced the Public Ledger to apologize abjectly for a story quoting Katharine Mayo in disparagement of Philippine missions. More interested in archdiocesan than in national Catholic affairs, Cardinal Dougherty typically interpreted the Church...
...last week's many meetings, women were as voluble as men. To them Mrs. Roosevelt sent a message as unique as the President's: "I am very glad to know that women are taking part in the conference on social hygiene...