Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloc, failed to capture the Student Union. While they did well in the elections, the Communists took an apparent beating on the Russo-Finnish question, when their blanket support of the Soviet Union's foreign policy was snowed under by indignant liberals. The liberal majority proceeded to condemn both Russian aggression and the actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse to rush the United States into war. In the same breath this majority voted for a rider which opposed both a moral embargo on Russia, and special loans to Finland, as unneutral...
...must confess that at the end of 17 years on the bench I find less certainty in the law today than at any time. . . . The question of law is one which it seems to me that a trial judge in the present conditions and the present environment . . . should not condemn...
...early to condemn the League for indecision; one can say only that more positive action would have been preferable. But more courageous days are doubtless in store, and certainly it is not too late. At the risk of losing a little superstructure, a more solid foundation can be laid...
...destroy nor to enslave nor to dismember nations, nor to prepare the predominion of one people upon the tragic ruins of a neighbor, nor to subscribe to public pacts to cover the maliciousness of secret treaties, nor to proscribe races, nor to persecute religions." So roundly did he condemn totalitarianism that he had to explain that Latin American dictatorships "have never been imperialist or totalitarian." Most of them, he said, were merely patriarchies to educate childlike peoples in the direction of democracy...
...Deal. If businessmen don't like Franklin Roosevelt, they do not indiscriminately condemn New Deal measures. Their votes on which measures should be kept, modified or repealed ("Don't knows" not listed...