Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detective who had been hired by a group of reformers to get dirt on the administration of Mayor Frank L. Shaw. When the bomb was traced to two of Mayor Shaw's intimates on the police force, public indignation blew the mayor out of City Hall. In a special election in September, Los Angeles voters recalled seamy Mayor Shaw, installed curly-headed, cherubic Superior Judge Fletcher Bowron as his successor (TIME, Sept...
...Empire [City] race track in Yonkers at the time. . . . Had I not verified it and been assured that it was said seriously, I should not have reprinted the remark. I am sorry Mr. Hopkins is embarrassed by the publication, and I can well understand that it may cause special difficulties with the Senate if he is nominated to the Cabinet. But, since I know the informant to be accurate, and since his recreational associations with Mr. Hopkins are very close, I can only conclude that Mr. Hopkins has forgotten the incident, though he should easily recognize the consistency...
...enjoined the Catholic University to "give special attention to the sciences of civics, sociology and economics . . . evolve a constructive program of social action, fitted in its details to local needs, which will command the admiration and acceptance of all right-thinking...
...Better studies as to young peoples' aptitudes for special kinds of work...
...Developing of special schools along lines of those at Annapolis and West Point to train youths for special jobs in public life and certain business assign...