Word: equalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Hoover threw conciliation and consultation to the winds. Unexpectedly he issued a statement appointing Editor Doak after all. He took occasion to rebuke Mr. Green, saying: "[His] enunciation that appointments must come from one organization in fact imposes upon me the duty to maintain the principle of open and equal opportunity and freedom in appointments to public office...
Agriculture. Ominously Arthur Mastick Hyde began: "To the 'President: The worst drought ever recorded in this country prevailed during much of the 1930 crop-growing season and greatly reduced farm production. Widespread droughts occurred in 1881, 1894, 1901, 1911, 1916, and 1924. These . . . did not equal the drought of the present year. . . ." He then related the course of the "conference of Governors of drought-stricken States called by you," also of the Federal Drought Relief Committee, of which "at your request I have served as chairman." Production figures given in the report included...
...must . . . make . . . for India . . . a federal system of government composed of the Native States and of British India . . . a co-equal partner in the great British Commonwealth . . . [in] the words of Abraham Lincoln "with malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...
Revolts, Mutinies, Counter-Revolution. Both War Commissar Voroshilov and Comrade Stalin denied all current rumors of revolts or mutinies in Russia, affirmed with equal vehemence their belief that persons leagued with the secret agents of capitalist states have recently been caught red-handed in Russia plotting counterrevolution...
...Peace can only come through the individual evolution of man." At the Poor Richard Club (Philadelphia), where he was presented with a silver spoon and porringer for his infant daughter, Andrea Sadja, he said: "Symphonic music is only a very small part of what radio can do. It is equal to anything man ever has had for exchange of thought, of imagination, of beauty; for developing everything that makes life a wonderful thing. Perhaps never before has there been such a medium. For the development of civilization, nothing is so important...