Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a month the Council had bit into another big question: "the athletic situation." This investigation paid particular attention to the development of intramural competition and methods of financing the H.A.A. program. In its report it advocated a compulsory athletic fee for upperclassmen, a reorganization of intramural sports, and the building of a hockey rink. The result was that the authorities placed inter-House athletics on a more centralized basis...
...Oslo Convention as an actual agreement was virtually forgotten. But because all the Oslo countries save Belgium were bound by no military alliances and pledged to neutrality in any coming war, the Oslo Group continued voting and thinking alike at international conferences. During the Ethiopian crisis in particular they cooperated with Finland and Switzerland, became known as "The League's Conscience...
...that may permanently alter the functions of the U. S. Government. Having at times opposed the otherwise undisputed master of U. S. politics, they had been bitterly assailed. One or more Justices may, like Mr. Van Devanter, retire and be replaced before the Court meets in October. But these particular nine old men were The Nine Old Men to whom future history will refer...
Another thunder-clap followed next day. Roberto Farinacci, editor of Cremona's Regime Fascista aimed at one particular Jew, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, French member of the famed banking family. Boomed Farinacci: "Rothschild offered plenty of help to that brigand Haile Selassie. ... He finances all anti-Fascist movements and now prefers to live and amuse himself in Florence...
From 1865 to the present the Constitution's history has been "that of an instrument framed to fit a particular type of social and industrial society suddenly called upon to meet the issues of an entirely different order of life." Hence the rise of corporation lawyers, the warping of the 14th Amendment's "due process" clause from its intended protection of Negroes to its actual protection of corporations. "It had accomplished nothing for its expected beneficiaries, Rastus and Dinah, but might hold concealed blessings for transcontinental railroads and Standard Oil companies." Hence the growth in importance...