Word: special
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Joseph William Martin studied timetables to Hawaii; House Democrat Chief Sam Rayburn headed home to his beloved shorthorn cattle in Bonham, Texas. By mutual agreement the leaders decided that events did not justify their remaining in Washington to counsel with Franklin Roosevelt as had been promised when the special session assembled...
...ships are to be provided with distinctive markings for each side: that the Germans would be advised of the markings on one side, while the Allies would be told of the other. The markings, said Mr. Pittman gravely, would be visible for five miles. Further, said Mr. Pittman solemnly, special "radio passwords" are to be given each U. S. ship, one set for the Allies, another set for the Germans, to be used when they are "spoken" by belligerent naval vessels. To this scheme of warfare made easy the Navy Department and the Maritime Commission merely nodded embarrassed heads, mumbled...
...Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
...Experience with democratic procedures develops discrimination and the realization that identical provisions for all do not necessarily result in equal opportunity for all. To work out the transition from a social structure that provides special privilege for those in positions of power, to a social order providing equal opportunity for all, is something that challenges both our intelligence and our integrity of purpose...
...22nd anniversary of the Communist revolution. The Communist Third International blasted forth with a strident manifesto which called upon workers of the world to unite and "go against those who favor continuation of imperialistic war." Nothing wrong was found with Nazi Germany, but the manifesto singled out for special tongue-lashings the U. S., which "repeals the embargo on the export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world in the chains of colonial slavery"; the Italian bourgeois, which "waits only for a convenient moment to throw...