Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. All the freedoms won through the generations since the Magna Charta of the year 1215, and the Bill of Rights (1689), and the Declaration of Independence (1776) are now being attacked by thoughts and ways that revert to the old fairy tales, when rulers could have a man's head chopped off at the whisper of treason to the state...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt watched the People. Perhaps excepting Adolf Hitler, no man of his time knew so well how to read what he saw, guide his acts by what he read. And the People watched the President. Of all the great peoples on earth, only they were utterly free to look, listen, judge, speak. Men and women called upon their President to be statesman, peacemaker, warrior. He was none of these. As in no other week since he entered the White House, he was the President of a political democracy, a ruling servant who could safely do no more...
Sept. 6: "It seems as though the sun could hardly shine upon a world where one man is able to speed civilization downward...
...crowd of over 250 people in Pierce Hall last night heard the dramatic story of the salvaging of the squalus from the man who directed it: Commander Charles B. Momsen of the U. S. Navy...
...pitching stars of the Cincy Club, boasting a combined record of fifty-two victories, have merely added two defeats to their list. The Reds thus far possess a team batting average of .088 and they are sleeping off a two-hit whitewashing inflicted upon them by a man who has only pitched one complete game in the last two months...