Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What he wanted was immediate, non-partisan action by Congress in special session to repeal the embargo on U. S. arms shipments to belligerents. The conferees agreed on non-partisan action for peace (but not, said Alf Landon afterward, to the point of forgoing partisan politics in 1940 and handing Franklin Roosevelt a third term). But they gave no committal whatsoever on the embargo. Franklin Roosevelt's biggest net gain was Jack Garner's potent support-at least for 30 days...
Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it came from the Battle of Jutland (Germans call it the Battle of the Skagerrak...
...honor of Harvard's famous president, Charles Eliot, because he was a "publicist, scientist, and author as well as an educator and because he was one of America's greatest leaders of opinion," a special one cent stamp will be issued this winter, it was announced at the recent meeting of the Stamp Club...
...Congress which is currently meeting in Special Session may either: (a) retain the present Neutrality Act; (b) repeal it and substitute Senator Pittman's "Cash and Carry" plan; or (c) repeal it without making any further legislation. If the existing statue is retained, all shipments of arms, ammunition, and implements of war will be barred. It says nothing of the raw materials and semi-finished products which made up 85 percent of U. S. shipments to the Allies during World War I. Although the "Cash and Carry" proposal prevents American ships from carrying cargo to belligerents, the present law makes...
Apart from the matters of emphasis Mr. Ross's article can be taken as expressing opinions widely held in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Members of the Faculty naturally feel special apprehension over matters directly involving their responsibility to the future of the University as a whole--all the more, perhaps, because they have been pointedly reminded that "when a department makes recommendations to the Dean on matters of personnel it is not acting as a faculty committee but as an informal group to whom the administration has turned for advice." At the same time the majority of them...