Word: crux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section of official opinion in the U.S. holds that Japan's Emperor Hirohito should be spared from propaganda and other attack, preserved as the postwar ruler of defeated Japan (see p. 19). Crux of this argument: the Emperor was against war with the U.S., resisted the actions of his war lords...
...Polish problem was now an immediate problem for the U.S. and Britain. At the crux of the difficulty were territories (now in German hands) which the Russians had occupied after the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Great Britain was formally committed, the U.S. was at least morally committed, to see Poland's prewar territory restored. But Soviet Russia was not prepared to give back the disputed Polish lands. Perhaps the Poles were again to learn an old and wretched lesson: that in the larger interests between great powers, the smaller nations usually have to take...
...Crux of Chief Justice Gwyer's decision was that numbers of prisoners in India may have been arrested on the slimmest of evidence. He ruled: "There is no power to detain a person because the Government thinks that he may do something hereafter or because it thinks that he is a man likely to do it; there must be suspicions based on reasonable grounds that he is actually about...
...probability, the current Nominating Committee was fully representative of its class. That particular problem of fact is not, however, the crux of the matter. If such a precedent of secrecy were established, it could be a tailor-made method of "fixing" elections in the future, whenever a group in power decided to make the attempt. Only complete publicity of the names of those who choose the slate can assure that they will be responsible and answerable to their constituents, and can protect the undergraduates from the possibilities of gross misrepresentation...
...Crux of the matter was one word: evangelical. Since its founding 23 years ago the Council's bylaws have limited membership to evangelical churches.*A year ago the Rev. Warren Wheeler Pickett, pastor of the First Congregational Church, thought it time that the Council followed the Detroit Pastors' Union, which had dropped the restrictive word. He and a committee appointed to revise the bylaws deleted the word. But the Council's directors, led by Dr. Joseph A. Vance, 78-year-old pastor-emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church and first president of the Council, promptly restored...