Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were at least two reasons for the grizzled Senator's violence. Ambassador Dodd, a North Carolina-born history professor whose particular heroes are Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, had inserted his dictator gossip in a long historical screed reviewing instances in which minorities, working through the Supreme Court and otherwise, had frustrated the people's will. First instance he mentioned was the fight of 1919 by which Senator Borah and other Irreconcilables blocked U. S. entry into the League of Nations. Condemning Jefferson's old enemy, Chief Justice John Marshall, as a tool of the interests...
Bound home from his fishing trip, President Roosevelt declined to comment directly on the Dodd letter, but newshawks aboard the Presidential special learned from his "associates" that he was inclined to share his Ambassador's fears. Though unconcerned about whether any particular billionaire was planning a fascist putsch, the President was represented as believing that a dictatorship might indeed result unless his foes were held in check...
...extensively without mincing words on lawyers' parts in corporate reorganizations: "The size of the lawyers' bill must frequently be astounding to security holders and others. This cannot be taken to mean that their compensation is always excessive. . . . The vice of the situation remains despite persuasive arguments that particular jobs are well done. The vice is that the bar has been charging all that the traffic will bear. It has forsaken the tradition that its members are officers of the court. .. . Organization for the practice of law on the large scale of mass production has contributed to the alleged...
White-maned Walter Damrosch rehearsed and conducted his opera with great vigor, took curtain calls along with Poet Guiterman. In a cast that sang as freshly as any this season, particular credit went to Helen Traubel of St. Louis for a powerful-voiced Mary. Arthur Carron sang Philip expressively, looked so little the romantic part that forthright Critic Danton Walker of the Daily News felt his sentence of banishment should have been a bread-&-water diet...
...stability as American Telephone & Telegraph was off 24 points from its 1937 high ($187). Railroad issues alone have demonstrated any real resistance to the market trend, the Dow-Jones rail averages still being well above the level of the year-end. Utilities, running as usual in their own particular bear market, have been on the decline since January...