Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...
...Prime Minister, in a voice so low that diplomats in the gallery had to crane to catch his words. But Mr. Chamberlain had apparently taken time enough to comb out of Hitler's formless harangue every conciliatory crumb of comfort it contained. These he singled out for special praise. "I very definitely got the impression," the Prime Minister went on, "that it was not the speech of a man who was preparing to throw Europe into another crisis. It seemed to me that there were many passages in the speech which indicated the necessity of peace for Germany...
...addition, Sir John revealed that one of the civilian defense deficiencies complained of during the Czech Crisis, the fact that there were no gas masks for children under five years of age, had been remedied. Special masks for toddlers under two have been ordered and a similar respirator adapted for children up to five is being developed...
...Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, echoed the advice of Sir Auckland Geddes. Wartime Minister of National Service, who three weeks ago told British housewives to keep at least a week's supply of food on hand. He also let it be known that special steps, of an unspecified nature, were being taken to insure the continuity of Britain's water supplies in case of air attacks...
...Hanover police department appeared disposed to be lenient in their interpretation of the law. Police Chief Dennis J. Halissey said that as far as he knew "there are no special drinking regulations. I am leaving it to the Dean of the College to enforce student restrictions...