Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From "A Pronouncement upon Religious Liberty," passed unanimously by the Southern Baptist Convention in Oklahoma City, Okla., on May 20: "We oppose the establishing of diplomatic relations with any ecclesirstical body, the extension of special couresies by our Government to any ecclesiastical official as such, and the employment of any of the branches of our national defense in connection with religious services that are held to honor any ecclesiastical leader...
...York parents were shocked. Soon parents, teachers, Mayor LaGuardia, the Board of Estimate and the City Council demanded that Governor Lehman call the Legislature into special session to restore the $5,300,000 it had pared from State aid to the city's schools. Meanwhile 1,500 teachers marched to Board of Education headquarters on Park Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted...
...Reich Literary Chamber, a subsidiary of Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, announced that henceforth Bibles could be displayed for sale only in religious bookstores-of which there are few in Germany. In other shops, the Bible may be sold only on special order. Thus Germany safeguarded its shelves from a history of Jewish achievement, a chronicle of subversive preaching and prophesying, a guidebook to a radical world order. It also protected itself against a competitor of A. Hitler's Mein Kampf. Last month the American Bible Society revealed that sales of Holy Writ, rising steadily during six years...
Many a Wall Street broker visualizes himself as a modern Sisyphus in a special kind of New Deal Hell: endlessly rolling a Business boulder up a WPA hill built too steep by Federal spending, sown too thickly with SEC hazards, watered so heavily with Federal supervision that the boulder continually slips out of his hands and rolls back into Depression...
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