Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn Mr. Landis' part in drawing up and supporting such a dangerous, undemocratic, wrong bill as the one under which he so successfully operates...
...sacred reader trust. ... In the latest instance, all political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...
...processing taxes as illegal as NRA's codes, and for the same reasons. A U. S. District Court had rejected the suit of receivers for Hoosac Mills Corp, to escape payment of $81,694 in processing and floor taxes levied by AAA. Reversing that decision, the Circuit Court condemned AAA because: 1) Congress, in taxing agricultural and industrial products before they entered interstate commerce, had exceeded its regulatory powers;* 2) having assumed illegal legislative power, Congress had then improperly delegated it to the Secretary of Agriculture. "If Congress," warned the Court, "can take over the control of any intrastate...
...midst of this city, which, in the minds of most Americans, has consecrated itself to the worship of Wall Street," announced the political priest, "I come not to criticize or berate individuals. I come to lift my voice on the doorsteps of a modern Temple of Mammon only to condemn a system of private money control...
...Rochdale consumers' co-operative movement. Typical also was the amiable alacrity with which, when they came to the question of Japan, the Methodists followed the lead of their presiding officer, Bishop Titus Lowe of Oregon. The report expressed friendship toward Japan. Chided Bishop Lowe: ''When you condemn American imperialism in the Far East and in the next breath compliment Japan after her recent record in Shanghai and Manchukuo, I fear your social service brains are not working. One of the rankest bits of imperialism in the world is Japan...