Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs for a lot of theorists" and sat down on his political haunches. Even when the ballot law commission certified the petition of Saturday, Mr. McNamara refused to call a special meeting because of an "interfering" ordinance. Mayor Lyons also did his part: to Dean Landis's plea that he call a meeting, as chief executive, he answered that he was "on his way to Maine." Finally, prodded by the supreme judicial court, the Council met and voted to transmit...
President and Cabinet met in special session at the White House to listen to Prime Minister Chamberlain's moving broadcast to the Empire the third day after his discouraged return from Godesberg. It came to them over a small, portable radio placed on the table between President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull...
Bund Führer Kuhn: " I have a special arrangement with Hitler and Germany that whenever any of our groups have trouble with the consuls in their districts they are to report it to me in full detail. I then take it up with the Ambassador." According to Mr. Metcalfe, Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff replaced former Ambassador Hans Luther because Herr Luther did not step properly for the Bund...
...them. Last week in U. S. District Court, Manhattan, indictments were returned charging alleged practitioners of this racket with combined finaglings which had deprived the U.S. Treasury of some $500,000. Indicted were President Harry Triandafillou of Royal Cigarette Corp., Abraham Goodman & Lewis H. Sugarman (makers of Kismet and special club brands), and Retailer Benjamin Seckler. If convicted on all counts, Mr. Triandafillou's company faces a maximum $25,000 fine, himself 123 years in prison...
...Author Agar, in his best book to date, is more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed. If everyone acted...