Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Associate Justice Pierce Butler of Minnesota used to be a law partner of William D. Mitchell, President Hoover's Attorney General. Mr. Justice Sutherland, a courteous old gentleman of 72, has angered liberals because he resolutely holds in his opinions that most efforts of states to regulate industry were contrary to the 14th ("due process of law") Amendment. Mr. Justice Butler has them equally enraged. He resolutely holds against citizenship for pacifists and for convictions for criminal syndicalists...
...when Japanese hoodlums set out to destroy the Singer Sewing Machine branch office at Yokohama with cordwood clubs (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). In both cases Ambassador Grew was at the Foreign Office almost before its officials knew that trouble had broken. In both cases, by reminding the Japanese with courteous firmness what protection their property in the U. S. has always enjoyed, Ambassador Grew was able to get instant, effective police action...
Notes: Labor indorses Russell. Russell is more progressive, has a more efficient, more courteous, office and office force. Luce is standing on his record, evaded questions as much as possible. Russell gave written answers to all questions, Luce refused to put anything in writing
When this rebuff, wrapped up in courteous Turkish "regrets," was flashed to London the British Government merely instructed Sir Percy to ask for a joint Anglo-Turkish inquiry into the killing of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. To this the Turkish Government grudgingly agreed, stiffly called this minimum request a "most unusual procedure...
...rancher in Montana during the '80s. Son Joseph grew up, took to the law, went into politics, became a State judge. He was Montana's Attorney General in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson made him a Federal judge in Hawaii. He was a quiet man, some said stubborn, firm and courteous on the bench, not given to expansive talk or large social entertainments. Hunting, fishing and contract bridge were his only sports and his only boast concerned fishing: "The big ones never get away from...