Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castration of every individual on commitment to above institution. It has been shown that short prison sentences, fines, commitment to hospitals for the insane, and even sentence to death, are not feared sufficiently by these persons to cause them to stop their sex-criminal tendencies. But, if they knew that after the first offence they will be castrated, and placed in a working institution for life, they will at least migrate to some country that is more kind and lenient in the treatment of their crimes. There is nothing these criminals fear more than castration (this does not mean simple...
Nine-tenths worn out by the Court struggle and Washington heat. Congressmen had so little inclination for attacking any new problems that the New Deal was reported anxious to postpone the revised Court Bill for fear that Congress would just lie down like a tired mule once it was disposed of. The result was something approaching a new deadlock, this time between the Presidential will and Congressional fatigue. There was some talk about adjournment and reconvening in October as a way out, but everybody except possibly the President and most ardent New Dealers was just a little too tired...
...seriously believed, during the stockmarket's long slide last spring, that Recovery was over. What was feared then was that the combination of strikes, rising labor costs and higher commodity prices would make for slimmer profits. That fear was by no means without foundation but it was exaggerated, as usual, in the stock-market's behavior. Stock prices have regained on the average about two-thirds of all ground lost between March and June. And by last week enough corporations had reported earnings for the first half of 1937 to indicate clearly that Big Business was still profitable...
...lonely traveler dreading my first Remarked, "I am all my second. My third is coming, I fear the worst, on a friendly second I reckoned." And then a smile o'er his features stole For he heard the perfect voice of my whole...
Bankruptcy laws of today were not part of the old common law. A bankrupt was treated as a criminal. Statutes eventually freed debtors from the fear of prison and by passing through bankruptcy m his own community a man could be released from all his debts anywhere in the U. S. except for taxes and debts for fraud or willful injury. Yet thousands of indebted individuals, because of distaste for bankruptcy or ignorance or inability to take advantage of bankruptcy provisions, have suffered the penalty of having their wages or salaries attached under garnishment proceedings. There were an estimated...