Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin Thomas Manton, 58, former senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan (TIME, June 5), was found guilty by a jury of "selling justice" to rich litigants and others for at least $235,600. Maximum penalty: two years in jail, $10,000 fine. He was not only the first Federal appellate court judge ever to be convicted, but the first ever to be tried for selling justice. More than 3,000 cases tried before him in 21 years may be reopened. He appealed...
...French army is kept democratic by the invariable practice of allowing only one-half its active officers to be taken from Saint-Cyr and the Polytechnique, Gallic West Points. The result has been a businesslike class of fine professional officers. With a hierarchy of officers whose continuity of tradition has not been broken since the 1870s, the French are probably weak on new tactics. They are scholars in warfare. It is typical that able Chief of Staff Gamelin, even-tempered Parisian who studied under Foch at the Staff College, is so close a student of Napoleon's campaigns that...
When revolutionary France started to defend herself against foreign enemies at the beginning of the 19th Century her army consisted of an untrained rabble which, theoretically, should have been easy meat for the professional armies of surrounding nations. But the brains of Napoleon soon fused this rabble into a fine French army and, what is more, employed it to gain the greatest French victories since the 18th-Century days of Marshal Saxe...
Lest they disappear entirely, the WPA Federal Writers' Project last week got out facsimile edition of "Singin' Billy's" song book- just in time for this year's one-day Singing. Armed with fine new copies Southern Harmony, the singers once filled the Court House, yielding to 40 oldsters the honored place in front of rail. To the time-beating of a quavery old leader, everyone joined in the traditional opening number: Brethren, we met to worship, and adore the Lord...
...Despite its (the Fogg's) brilliant exterior it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. . . . When it comes to relating fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...