Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immigration officials refused to let her disembark. Next day, Magda de Fontanges was whisked to Ellis Island where, in an interview with ship news reporters she declared, "My only interest is to obtain a gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same day the Board of Special Inquiry, making a delicate distinction between her case and that of Countess Cathcart, excluded her not because of her amours but "because of an admission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, assault with a dangerous weapon." Unless Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reverses the Board's ruling...
Even more depressing to Mr. Kennedy than outlook for new ships was the "deplorable" state of maritime labor. "The shipping industry is now paying for its shortsightedness in repressing labor for so many years." He urged a special labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
After the War, touring the U. S. with his parents, Crown Prince Leopold greatly surprised correspondents on the royal special train by his democratic willingness to play poker, surprised them still further by quietly trimming them most of the time, always refused to say who taught him the game-a suspect being General Pershing...
...private owners were asked some years ago at what figure they would be willing to sell out, replied $750,000,000. The new bill is to force them to sell out for $330,000,000 and its expected passage will provide another $50,000,000 to compensate them for special losses expected to arise in so huge a transfer...
Symptoms of this widespread disease are well known: first, congested, watery eyes, sensitive to light; at the same time, or a few hours later, an acute cold, sneezing, running nose, harsh cough. Within 24 to 48 hours the special signs of measles appear on the inside surfaces of the cheeks and lips. These are bright red spots with minute bluish-white centres. On the fourth day of the attack, bluish red spots appear behind the ears, at the border of the hair, at the temples, at the back of the neck, and spread over the entire body. The rash usually...