Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the House. Back in Montana, dogged Mike Mansfield slaved days in the copper mines around Butte, slaved nights studying to make up for his missed education. Passing special entrance examinations, he went to the Montana School of Mines and Montana State University, won his master's degree in history and political science at 31, was appointed professor of Latin American and Far Eastern history at Montana State. He gave up teaching for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1943 (having defeated Republican Jeannette Rankin, who cast the lone congressional vote against a U.S. declaration of war after Pearl...
...program will begin in September 1957 with approximately 750 teachers following the special courses of study...
Both Councillors Charles A. Watson and Alfred E. Vellucci called the reassignment "peculiar." Cosgrove, who had previously been demoted shortly after breaking up a gambling ring, had been the center of investigations both by the Council and the Massachusetts Special Crime Commission...
Gardner Campbell, Republican State Representative, immediately called for a special commission to study auto insurance rates and allied matters...
...Manhattan last week. Producer DeMille made a dramatic announcement: he will turn over all his own profits from the movie "for all time" to a special trust fund to be set up for "charitable, religious and educational purposes." Said he before a civic luncheon audience: "I believe deeply that the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai are not laws. They are the law . . . They are the charter and guide of human liberty . . . The struggle between the forces represented by Moses and those represented by Pharaoh is still being waged today. Are men free souls under God or are they...