Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance of the Poles in the U. S. is still fairly minor. Immigrants settled on farms in New England, Pennsylvania, Texas, the North Central States, went into factories, crawled into mines, swaggered into the Pacific lumber camps,' poured their sweat and labor into the expanding machinery of U. S. industry, sent their brawny children to college, where their names have recently emerged as problems to football cheering sections...
Observers could explain the Administration's legislative Blitzkrieg only thus: 1) the U. S. public found out at once that both sides wanted the same thing-i. e., that the U. S. stay out of war-and were arguing only over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2) the real debate had already been exhaustively aired for six weeks by almost every leading figure in all walks of life on the radio and in the press, leaving nothing for Congress but second-rate oratory on a second-hand subject.* Congressional mail dropped from its alltime high...
...Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil" act and began talking about war ending with "only losers"; about "millions of men uselessly sent to death and milliards of riches destroyed." He even made a short bow to free trade and the sanctity of the borders of minor nations. It was as though, after six years, he realized he had about exhausted Mein Kampf not only as a platform but as a point of appeal, and had been compelled to appeal to some larger interest, i.e., the interest of all the European masses, for whom he now specifically...
...will be the traditional concert with the Yale club the evening before the Yale game. The most ambitious Glee Club performances will be given in the Spring when they sing the annual Sanders Theatre concert and assist the Boston Symphony in Strawinsky's "Oedipus Rex" and Bach's B-minor Mass...
...Pittman believed that the mere question of repeal of the arms embargo was but a minor phase of the problem of national security. But as a practical man he knew how thunderous a drum-roll his Isolationist foes could beat up over that single issue. He set himself to smash their drumheads, roll the drum himself...