Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressive marble building remindful of No. 23 Wall St., the bland and open citadel of J. P. Morgan & Co. Also bland and open is No. 1, citadel of the Mitsui Gomel Kaisha...
...denial of citizenship to all conscientious objectors to war was recently confirmed when a congressional committee emphatically rejected the proposed Griffin bill, an attempt to put into law the minority opinions of the Supreme Court in the Bland, Schwimmer, and Macintosh cases. The rejection of this bill is a natural consequence of the revival of nationalism which the country is now experiencing. But it reveals a spirit utterly at variance with the principles of American government, and with the best contemporary thought...
George Washington, as can be ascertained from a perusal of his innumerable life portraits and their copies, was a man of many moods and faces.? Doubtless the Washington of the Peale portraits would have allowed a proud smile to creep across his bland countenance had he learned of all these incongruously complimentary doings in his behalf. The Gilbert Stuart Washington, however, is a more skeptical and pessimistic personage. Like those of Calvin Coolidge, his nostrils seem assailed by perpetually disagreeable odors. The Washington nostrils might have distended even more, had their owner heard of: 1) a project to sell...
With a smile that was childlike and bland Chiang Kaishek, famed first President of the Nationalist Government, arrived in Nanking last week. A thousand chastened members of the Kuomintang party assembled to welcome him. Only six weeks ago these same men forced him to resign the Presidency. He left and his opponents shouted to the winds that they were heartily glad...
Sponsored by 27 journals was a petition: a "Declaration of an American Citizen." Because the Supreme Court decision in the Bland-Macintosh case held that a native-born U. S. citizen is obliged (as is supposed to be inherent in the oath of allegiance) to bear arms, the petition makes the following declaration: "I, a citizen of the United States, solemnly refuse to acknowledge the obligation which the Supreme Court declares to be binding upon all citizens, whether native-born or naturalized. I have not promised, expressly or tacitly, to accept an act of Congress as the final interpretation...