Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Secretaries of State would have been awed by the size and complexity of the world problems before the Roosevelt Administration-but not Democrat Cordell Hull. His job is thoroughly to the liking of this long lean Tennessean with mournfully drooping shoulders and a slight lisp. It dovetails perfectly with what he has been preaching for more than 20 years. At hand now is the chance of a lifetime to put his economic gospel to the fierce test of world opinion-and action...
...most advanced men, Mr. Shaw is not quite able to believe that the world has caught up with him. His one American speech was devoted to a triumphant exposition of the cross purposes at which finance works--a misfortune of which his hearers were already very painfully aware. A slight flutter was raised when the speaker dryly complimented the American people as the saviours of Russia, or the saviours of communism, and then pointed out that our "natural political science" thus bulwarked our own capitalistic monopoly. But in the main, those who merely wait another manifestation of the vigorous thought...
...number of beliefs and sympathies, but the one outstanding sentiment has been that the Scottsboro boys have not been granted fair trials. As in the Mooney case, it is a question of procedure and not of innocence. It has been evident to all those who have given even a slight inspection to the affair that in the trials at Scottaboro and Docatur the jurors were subject to an overwhelming prejudicial influence, which rendered their decisions far from impartial. At times the prisoners had to be protected by the National Guard from the mobs of Southern gentlemen bent on indulging themselves...
...voters are beer drinkers, and that an even greater number favour the introduction of the golden beverage into the dining halls. The answers to the other questions indicate, in general, little beside a coyly wayward tendency to annoy waitresses, and an astounding ability to vanish under the table on slight provocation...
Jules Judels, the slight, frizzly-haired man who for 41 years has managed the Metropolitan tours, had sent ahead eight baggage cars full of scenery. But Jules Judels' job this year is not so big as usual. Of the several cities which have imported the Metropolitan in the past, Baltimore alone could this year raise the necessary guarantee...