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There was no great complaint in the House of Commons over the plan to divvy up the Italian fleet. What annoyed Britons of all stripes was the American disregard of other people's feelings. Besides President Roosevelt's airy aside, there was quite a bill of particulars...
...fairness of the reporting in this pamphlet should have been a source of great satisfaction to those who truly struggle with this great problem. It could have been objectionable only to those whose minds were set upon a definite course of action and who were accordingly selfishly resolved to disregard any facts bearing on this question. The weak stand taken by President Barnard disqualifies him for his position. He has sanctioned the governing of the many by the few. DOUGLAS P. ADAMS...
...critics had some basis in fact: the Justices had been airing their views with more than a little acidity. First, Justices Black and Murphy stingingly remarked that Justice Frankfurter has been propounding "a wholly gratuitous assertion as to constitutional law." Then Justice Roberts returned: "The tendency to disregard precedents has become so strong ... as to leave courts below without any confidence that what was said yesterday will hold good tomorrow." Last week, Justice Frankfurter cracked back at Justices Black and Murphy, saying that their theory of the law is "wholly novel...
...half a day until the hunter catches up. The West has developed its own breed of hounds-big, rangy, fast "black and tans." Hunters start training with a sackful of house cats for practice treeing. Only after two seasons of running with veterans do most dogs learn to disregard deer trails and stay on the cougar scent...
...state which shares a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, 160,000 Mexican-born residents, and an uncounted number of U.S. citizens of Mexican and Spanish blood Spanish would seem to be a necessity, but in 1940, Corpus Christi had to disregard the state law even to make Spanish a grade-school subject. A year later, the state legalized this action. Two years later, 1,125 Texas school districts were teaching Spanish to some 250,000 children...