Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides dramatizing old yells, the tumbling squad will do some special numbers with the band. "We're really looking for men with plenty of experience," Liebman explained, "but any good tumbler who knows the usual flips, handstands, cartwheels, and air somersaults has a chance to make the new squad...
Pound and Fairbank will concentrate on Chinese policy. Both have spent the last few years in China, the former as legal adviser to Chiang's Minister of Justice, and the latter as special assistant to the American ambassador...
...branch has been given a special go-ahead signal by the Boston Bar Association. Students working at the new office will be the only ones in the nation entitled to practice law outside school limits...
Governor Paul Dever's special commission has now taken over the Van Waters case, to the intense relief of the entire Commonwealth. For many months, the public has been treated to a vicious series of incredible attacks in the press upon a woman who is undoubtedly one of the greatest social workers in the United States. Following these attacks, Miriam Van Waters was dismissed on January 11 as superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham by her superior, Commissioner of Correction McDowell. She demanded --and got--a special hearing to clear her record, but under a strange sort...
Commissioner McDowell, who entered office a year ago, was not in sympathy with Dr. Van Waters' methods. He had been trained along more traditional lines: prisoners were criminals, not students at a boarding-school, and no laxity in observing the law could be condoned by calling it "Special treatment" or progressivism. Last June, he handed down a set of directives to Dr. Van Waters drastically curtailing her program. McDowell claimed that she violated some of these directives; yet the overwhelming evidence showed that she honestly attempted to carry them out. In a few piddling instances, there were good reasons...