Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dies Committeeman Noah Mason of Illinois proposed to have them all fired if they did not quit the League forthwith. "It is too bad," said he, recognizing that some innocents are bound to be hurt. Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman introduced a bill to bar from Federal pay rolls...
"Never in my eighty-odd years of life," rasped the veteran Virginian, "have I known or heard of a more humiliating spectacle than that presented by the legislative body of a great, rich and powerful nation spending months in devising expedients to contravene immemorial requirements of international law through positive...
"To talk about the munition industry dragging this country into war is incredible fiction. . . .This country went into the World War to vindicate its rights on the high seas, and now to relinquish these rights through fear of Hitlerism is to dishonor our dead. . . . The proposition is utterly destitute of...
Procedure. Russia's position was beginning to look embarrassing. Plain fact was that, as soon as City of Flint sailed under the German flag, it risked capture by British warships, faced at the minimum a 1,300-mile voyage through blockaded waters, at least 50 miles of known mine...
One day last week New York City schools closed to let children take advantage of a special, eleventh-hour, five-cent admission to the local World's Fair. Besides those who went through the turnstiles, from 75,000 to 200,000 whooped in without paying a cent. And then...