Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly all prosecution witnesses insisted upon testifying for the defendant. Gist of their stories was that the colonel was a drinker, not a drunkard. At the close of the trial the court itself put Lieut. Smith on the stand and questioned him. His tale was that Colonel Giffin got him to resign, then reneged on a promise to back him in an automobile agency, left him to starve, refused to give him "more" money. Said Lieut. Smith: "If he had handed me a couple of bucks when I went to him for help and said, 'Here, you poor...
...most, U. S. Communists ask their willing and unwilling allies to unite upon a 17-point program, extending from soak-the-rich taxation to equal rights for Negroes (who in several big cities lend the Party considerable support). The gist of the program is condensed in the Party's No. 1 Slogan: "For Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace." As a minimum basis for democratic coalition, Communists propose: 1) support the bulk of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy; 2) bring to bear all possible pressure for abandonment of his hands-off neutrality policy; 3) collaborate with France and Soviet...
...Gist of the 14th Amendment passed in 1868 to guarantee civil rights to Negroes was the clause providing that no State could "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. . . ." Following an 1886 precedent, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the term "person" applied to corporations as well as individuals. Gist of Justice Black's dissent in last January's Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. v. Johnson case: "I do not believe the word 'person' in the Fourteenth Amendment includes corporations...
...future and the nation's. Conferees and the press, to whom Phil La Follette maintained an air of tantalizing secrecy, were led to believe that something significant was afoot. The belief was substantiated last fortnight when the Governor delivered four voluminous radio speeches on successive nights. Gist of last fortnight's radio speeches was: 1) that both La Follettes had broken with Franklin Roosevelt when he hopefully cut down on spending a year ago, and 2) that a message of first national importance would be forthcoming at last week's meeting in Madison...
Inside the Journal, readers found sensational matter. The gist of three main charges...