Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...womanhood in Alabama is pure poppycock. The answer to this is that a petit jury would require about 30 seconds to reach an electrocution verdict for the perpetrator of such a crime as this. Those unlawful hoodlums who imagine themselves heroes when taking part in lynchings have a distorted idea of patriotism. Only lawless hoodlums and the enemies of government take part in mob law. As the chief law enforcement officer of this State I condemn it and make known that as long as I am the attorney general of this State, those persons who think they are more important...
...outs, as a Democratic candidate for Mayor next autumn against the President's good friend, Socialist-Republican-Fusionist Fiorello LaGuardia. The President replied: "Ha! ha! ha!" When this was reported to New York's bumbling Senator, he cracked back: "I'm delighted if the idea gave him a chance to laugh. If he got enjoyment, that's fine. He needs it. As a health matter it's a good thing to laugh...
First intimation of that momentous idea occurred April 8 when the President sat down in the White House with three curious groups: 1) Mrs. Roosevelt and her friend Esther Everett Lape, manager of the American Foundation which Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok finances out of Saturday Evening Post profits; 2) the Nation's official doctors-Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. of the U. S. Public Health Service, Chairman Gary Travers Grayson of the Red Cross, and the President's Personal Physician Ross Mclntire; 3) ten private practitioners, including Otologist Samuel Joseph Kopetzky of the New York State Medical...
...President replied that he would not consider enlarging his Cabinet for the sake of any single pressure group like the doctors. He hinted, however, that he was considering this idea: that a sub-Cabinet officer like Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the Public Health Service, might well supervise all the public health and maternal and child welfare activities of the Government, now scattered in the Treasury, Interior, Commerce and Labor Departments...
...action. I hardly need give illustrations. We are all too familiar with them, --the news from Russia and Germany almost daily illustrates the intellectual tyranny of a totalitarian state. There can be little room, indeed, for a nonconformist in a country where the Minister of Education declares: "The old idea of Science based on the belief in the supremacy of the abstract intellect is finished. The new Science is sharply differentiated from the conception that its honor lies in the everlasting nature of the search for truth." And now much room for spiritual freedom is there in a land where...