Word: crux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them they could not see the President. "Who made that decision?" asked Mrs. Field. "I did," replied Secretary Joslin. "Is this the usual procedure for receiving petitions?" "Each case is judged on its merits-and I am the judge of the merits," explained Secretary Joslin. Boiled Mrs. Field: "The crux of this matter is the apparent inability of American citizens to petition their President. We merely asked to be allowed to present our petition...
...Glueck, a member of its faculty. He states that "We agree that speedy apprehension and prompt trial of a suspect has a salutary effect all round, but beyond that it is our wish to slow down rather than to speed up justice; namely in the imposition of penalty . . . The crux of the problem lies not so much in the definition of individual crimes, as in the presence or absence of scientific procedure when it comes to the sentencing of those found guilty." In other words the school believes that criminals, once the regular courts have passed on them, should...
...Macmillan, was never put by the economic sages of the last century. A very literate economist himself, Mr. Chase answers the question simply and proposes changes which he believes will make the system function as it should. Whether the system is capitalism or socialism, he cares little. "The crux of the matter is, who receives the factory income? As the case now stands, it is a six-cornered fight between the landlord ... the bondholder . . . the stockholder ... the worker ... the management . . . and the state. If the worker or the state wins out, it is socialism; if landlord, bondholder and stockholder...
...Department of Labor as a strike-breaking weapon in the hands of the mill-owners that is the crux of this situation. It is against this, and the particularly flagrant use of it in this case,--the holding of Miss Berkman for seven months without ball as a punitive measure,--that the Liberal Club's protest is lodged. By Miss Berkman's activity, the National Textile Workers' Union had conducted a vigorous and thorough prosecution of the strike, which in turn created a united front of millowners, the A. F. of L., and the U. S. Department of Labor, whose...
...artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind, because there are occasional moments in the Tone Poem when that salient fact can be lost sight...