Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge that the Supreme Court has been controlled by any political party is an atrocious one. Does it disclose the Democratic candidate's conception of the functions of the Supreme Court? Does he expect the Supreme Court to be subservient to him and his party? Does that statement express his intention to attempt to reduce that tribunal to an instrument of party policy...
...Died. George Weston, 56, vice president and treasurer of American Express Co.; of a heart attack while golfing; at Westfield...
Fortnight ago Los Angeles attempted to express its appreciation of Patron Clark. Important citizens, including Mayor John Clinton Porter, gathered in Pershing Square across from the Auditorium. Laudatory speeches were made. Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, an imposing grey-haired dowager representing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Woman's Committee, pulled a silken cord, revealed a bronze Beethoven in long frockcoat, baggy trousers, hands clasped characteristically behind his back. Philharmonic musicians, who gave the statue in Patron Clark's honor, sealed their gift with a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express Co., dined with President John C. Eliasco of the Bank of Athens. He had a two-and-a-half-hour conference with Ery Kehaya, fork-waving president of Standard Commercial Tobacco Co. of Manhattan...
...overemphasized. This is the sense of values which gives special importance to immediate material considerations such as position and wealth, instead of to less obvious things such as intellectual and artistic ability, cultivation, and character. Influence and affluence often reflect brains and personality, but the latter qualities too frequently express themselves in other ways for which there is little or no recognition...