Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presession maneuverings, none was so important as those that went on in the office of the Senate's president, John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner. As Vice President of the U. S., Mr. Garner regularly attends Cabinet meetings by special invitation of President Roosevelt. He attended a meeting last week and, though the walls of the Cabinet room are thoroughly soundproof, newsgatherers soon learned that there had been hot discussion, that Cactus Jack had taken an adamant position for economy...
JOHN O'CONNOR, member of Congress for over 15 years and chairman of the Rules Committee for four years, will resume the active general practice of law in Washington, D. C. and New York City, specializing as trial and appeal counsel and in practice before Government departments and commissions and in advising as to legislative matters. Associated with him will be JAMES P. DULLIGAN, former special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, KERMIT F. KIP and J. DANIEL DOUGHERTY...
When President Roosevelt presents Congress with the special message on national defense, asking a mammoth air force of 12,000 planes, increased in army munitions, and more new battleships--not to mention the important and dramatic details--he will be asking for the means of implementing his revitalized foreign policy of resistance to dictatorships. "Implementation" is often merely a convenient euphemism referring to war. And yet, though the fundamental purpose of the new rearmament may be diplomatic and not defensive, it does not follow, as some pacifists and isolationists would have us believe, that the President is leading the country...
...book, entitled "General Cartography," is 370 pages long and contains special maps, original diagrams, and a 64-page history of map-making...
Last week the six railroaders echoed the Splawn recommendations for repeal of land-grant freight rates for Government traffic, creation of a Transport Board to supervise all transport, creation of a special railroad court to handle reorganizations, loosening of RFC purse strings, and relieving ICC of the necessity of certifying that roads borrowing from RFC are not in need of reorganization. Only major additions were pleas for a flexible rate structure adaptable to changing business conditions, for equal taxes on competing forms of transport, for terminating ICC sponsorship of consolidations...