Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican, liberal, a Coolidge appointee, as Chief Justice. Last week the U.S. realized how much it liked the idea of a solid man as Chief Justice to follow Charles Evans Hughes. And solid is the word for Chief Justice Stone-200 lb., with heavy, good-natured features and a benign judicial air. On the bench, Frankfurter moves around and makes notes; Douglas looks restless and bored; Murphy stares pensively under his bushy eyebrows; Black smiles enigmatically to himself; but Mr. Justice Stone, leaning forward impassively, his grey hair falling over his forehead, is almost as impressive a figure of justice...
Meanwhile the State Department announced that during April the benign old Secretary had realistically approved licenses to export $57,000,000 worth of war materials to the Dutch East Indies-an amount second only to the arms exports bound for Britain...
...rear-guard action against a benign monarchy of wealth is deliciously overwhelmed by her munitions-making father (Robert Morley), her agnostic sweetheart (Rex Harrison, George VI's double), and especially by an unreconstructible ruffian (Robert Newton), who very nearly runs away with the picture...
Twaddle. Husky, benign Harry Twaddle read a prepared statement which painted a rosy picture of great progress against great handicaps, of war-timed mobilization plans adapted to a pre-war expansion which the Army had never expected. As of last week, said he, the Army had 470,000 Regulars (on three-year enlistments), 267,000 National Guardsmen (mobilized for one year), and 413,000 one-year draftees in training. Said General Twaddle...
...present receiving help in one form or another will not be left out. The part played by N.Y.A. finances will be that of trying to finish off the student-aid program of the T.S.E. and other benign agencies where they cannot help but fall short. Distributed wholly at the discretion of the University and with no chance of being cut off at its Washington source by party politics or anything else, Harvard's N.Y.A. money will serve a worthy cause. After five years of doubtful darkness, the Corporation has snatched at a glimmer of light for the problem of needy...