Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that building for 30 years, Roosevelt, Franklin D., had cast his vote on election day. Last week's occasion differed from others only in one important particular: The election in which he voted was the nearest thing possible to a national referendum on Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Said he as he stepped out of the downpour: "It's good weather for ducks. The Democrats ought...
...defeat of Republican Senator David Aiken Reed caused particular rejoicing around the White House campfires. As a rich and reactionary Pittsburgher, as the Senate spokesman for Andrew W. Mellon, as the close ally of Pennsylvania's manufacturer and bankers, Senator Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President...
...Have the writings or speeches of any particular persons influenced this misunderstanding? Who are they...
...severely to task by Professor Wiener for recounting the philosophy of the Nazis. I was thankful to see it succinctly put, and did not leap to the immediate conclusion that Prof. Magoun was a rabble-rouser. If I explain to the press why Eskimos eat candles, or state what particular gastronomic pleasure cannibals derive from missionaries, is it to be assumed that I approve of such edibles or such ethics, or that I am a cannibal...
...Club has discovered that in its meetings the opinions advanced by its members have been so various and divergent that in the general discussions little can be accomplished on an integrated basis. Hence, it has adopted the method of forming smaller groups for the special study and discussion of particular problems of contemporary public affairs. Each of these study groups is to be under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Meetings will generally be held every two weeks. Meanwhile members will do outside reading on their problems under the direction of the faculty supervisor...