Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murphy. The Judiciary sub-committee did not bother to call Frank Murphy before approving him as Attorney General. But he, whose nonenforcement of a court order to eject sit-down strikers from a General Motors plant at Flint in 1937 had been cited against him, was not satisfied. He asked to appear to give "the real, inside story" of his sit-down conduct, which he had never told because "I never wanted to impair my position as mediator." Now that he was no longer Governor he would speak...
...implied criticism of the New Deal was enough to arouse Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson. An ex officio member of the House of Delegates, he advised his colleagues: "Let's not spend our time tilting against windmills. . . The fact is, the record of administrative tribunals is slightly better than that of the lower courts, where appeals were made. Federal agencies won 64% of their cases, while lower courts were sustained in only 54% of the cases appealed, over a ten-year period...
...With respect to your general doctrine that a deficit will bring about business recovery, I call your attention to the fact that Mr. Hoover did very well in this matter. He had a deficit of $3,153,000,000 in 1932 preceded by a deficit of nearly a billion...
Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a German Jew who, in order to escape from Germany, had lied about his money to Nazi officials...
...brightest spot on the Loyalist horizon was Paris. There the executive committee of Premier Edouard Daladier's Radical Socialist Party-without whose support he cannot remain in power-passed with only one dissenting vote a resolution asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last...