Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...political and economic theories cause him to swing naturally into line with the Norris-La Follette Insurgent faction of the Senate G. O. P. He exhibits no capability as a minority party leader. His votes are generally independent, sometimes freakish (he was the only Democrat to vote against the special session adjournment). A good partisan, he flays the Old Guard and what he calls G. O. P. "imperialism" so vigorously that many a conservative mistakes him for a radical. In industry and intelligence he is above the Senate average. His term expires March...
...elevation of Cary Travers Grayson from Commander to Rear-Admiral in 1916 was at the special request of President Wilson, to give his personal physician appropriate rank. *A second son, John, was killed in a motor accident in 1926. The daughter, Josephine, was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1928. Philip, third son, is a sophomore at St. Lawrence College. Richard, youngest son, is in primary school...
Young Fascists, opening their New Year's copies of Tricolore, the Young Fascists' weekly magazine, were treated to a special contribution from the most prominent of all Young Fascists last week, the first instalment of a full length blood-and-thunder novel entitled La Camorra ("The Black Hand") by Vittorio Mussolini, II Duce's plump and swarthy 14-year...
Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
...When real estate operators desire to obtain unwarranted loans upon their property, they sometimes pay bank officers a special commission. Thus the name (and the nature) of commission loans...