Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colored folk like this type of sermon. But in a world sick with prejudice, I hate to have TIME help prejudice along in one of our most pressing domestic problems. To generalize upon the colored people, putting them alongside of Hitler and the Germans ... is not a way to work for democracy...
...urged surveys based on the possibility that 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 persons may be deprived of homes and countries by the war. > Sent a warm message to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü on modern Turkey's 16th anniversary celebration. > Rapped the work of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., in its attempt to adjust Latin-American defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether or not he favored scaling down the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American debts. Reason: the inter-American economic conference next month. > Tut-tutted...
...placed on the Dies committee last February to counterbalance its Red-hunting chairman. Jerry Voorhis soon was more appalled by his new view of U. S. Communists and Nazis than by the antics of Martin Dies. Having come to check and scoff, the new member remained to respect the work if not the chairman of the committee. But last week Mr. Voorhis suddenly drew back, cried: "I can't vote for that...
...Byrne's job the Governor appointed Neils Hertz. One hour and 15 minutes after Hertz had been sworn in, the three-judge hearing on the rebel jurors' charges was dismissed, on Hertz' motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne's qualifications, thus also terminating the hearing...
...first place, CzechoSlovakia's German protectors served notice beforehand that no celebration would be tolerated. When the day came, and the Czechs celebrated anyhow, the Nazis turned Czech police loose on them. The police did their work efficiently and quietly, giving no indication that it might be distasteful. Only one Czech policeman had to be arrested by Schutzstaffeln...