Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared he, "I have taken no part in New Jersey political affairs other than to support the candidates of the Republican Party. I belong to no faction within the Party. But from my earliest boyhood two pictures stand out in my memory. One is of Jersey justice as an ideal of fair but unswerving enforcement of law through the orderly processes of the courts. The other is that the office of Governor is one of dignity and honor. When a Governor makes a mockery of our courts and juries and drags his high office into the mire, I cannot remain...
...constitution has been necessary for so long, that it is encouraging to contemplate the bold changes made by the present committee. On the whole the constitution to be submitted to the Council tonight is an efficient and complete code of operation, and with a few revisions would form an ideal base for Council activity...
There were brave men in Germany last week who risked their lives for an ideal. The shrewdest brains of the Nazi secret police were trying to find out who they were. Meanwhile in the midst of the greatest exhibition of organized mob hysteria Germany has ever seen, small slips of paper, some printed, some mimeographed, some typed, continued to be circulated surreptitiously from hand to hand. All had the same theme: "Comrades, write NO on your ballots! Every vote of NO is a vote against war, against misery, against famine, concentration camps and murders...
...five-room headquarters in Washington's Willard Hotel, little or no money and an organization made up mainly of William Edgar Borah. One eager volunteer came around early in the campaign: snaggle-toothed Representative J. Hamilton Fish of New York. No candidate's dream of the ideal political ally is "Ham" Fish, the butt of many a Congressional jest, the ardent runner-down-of-Reds. The statesman from Idaho warily shook Mr. Fish's large, aristocratic hand, accepted his services but offered him no official campaign post...
...Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to Kansas City; by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to Pasadena, Calif. There in Caltech's laboratories, where a huge grinding machine has been set up, it will spend some three years acquiring the ideal paraboloid curve in its face. Some time before 1940 it will be installed in its telescope on Palomar Mountain in Southern California...