Word: disinterestedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rangy, bespectacled Good Worker Henry, who is too modest to list himself in Who's Who, almost perfectly fulfills SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' definition of the disinterested professional director (see below).
Like Lawyers Holmes, Cardozo and Brandeis, Lawyer Frankfurter is a firm believer in judicial self-limitation. The most relevant qualifications for a Supreme Court appointee, he once wrote, "are his breadth of vision, his imagination, his capacity for disinterested judgment, his power to discover and suppress his prejudices."
Walsh named the "post-Munich relapse" as a possible explanation for the disinterested attitude that is coming over the writers and supporters of "this progressive piece of legislation of the Roosevelt administration."
Over and against these weaknesses is the general attitude of broadmindedness which has characterized the Committee's work. The active interest of all groups concerned, including the Student Council, should prove to the most skeptical that the movement represents a wide and disinterested group of undergraduates. It is to be...
"Any fair and disinterested third party," replied Mr. Willkie. He suggested the SEC. Mr. Willkie said Mr. Lilienthal had vetoed a suggestion that both sides name an arbitrator and the Supreme Court nominate a third.