Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argued that a negro defendant should be tried by a jury entirely of his own race; it is conceivable that these jurors would be competent enough. Nevertheless this plan would have to combat all the prejudice and hatred of the South. Clearly the only way to achieve Judge Lowell's idea of a more equitable justice for the persecuted race is not to antagonize with embittered criticism, but to educate gradually, with constructive suggestions...
...frankly the sole purpose, or should be the sole purpose, of the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll to keep public attention sharply focused on the futility and cruelty of war and thus to combat the weathering effects of time; for any value of such a petition as anti-militaristic propaganda is obviated by the prevalence of peace. And, however much one may be tempted to discount the validity of the resulting opinions on the score of the irresponsibility of youth in college and in peace time, there can be no doubt that such movements are most vital to the maintenance...
...embargo on gold, it appears to me, is a necessary Prerequisite to a vigorous attempt to combat deflation. The ground is now cleared both nationally and internationally, for a courageous, but same attempt to increase monetary incomes. Up to the present the success of any bold policy to overcome the depression would have been jeopardized by the deflationary effects of a possible outflow of gold. This danger is now removed...
...front of the slow-moving industrial procession when the Senate unexpectedly passed (53-to-30) a bill that would clamp down upon U. S. manufacturers and producers not only the five-day week but also the far more radical six-hour day. As an emergency measure to combat unemployment the proposed law would be effective for only two years. Its author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work, on the theory that the employer who wants to keep his production...
...stock-in-trade is a file of old examination papers, a collection of mimeographed texts, outlines, shortcuts. That these are extracted copiously without by-your-leave from authorized textbooks, should long have been obvious to everybody. But not until last week did U. S. publishers move into open combat. Vaguely speaking of a "nationwide war," Macmillan Co-., Ginn & Co. and Houghton Mifflin Co. all brought suit against an obscure Harvard "College Tutoring Bureau." They alleged infringements on copyrights of such books as Frank William Taussig's Principles of Economics, a Life of Andrew Jackson, Garver & Hansen's Principles...