Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To improve the quality of U. S. diplomatic representation abroad was one of the prime aims of President Hoover on taking office. The impression grew that, all other things being equal, he would favor career diplomats in appointments over politicians or their friends. Until last week the President had made...
Supreme Court's Man. Herbert Hoover, on approaching the Presidency, cast about for an Attorney General who would meet three requirements: 1) a corking good lawyer; 2) a Protestant; 3) a Dry in whom Drys had complete confidence. Such a man was hard to find. In 1925 Secretary of...
"There is an impression in America that Europe is decadent, on the down grade, because of the War. Let me assure you that Europe was never younger than today! It is almost as if the forces of youth had been released anew in the Old World.
Despite the impression conveyed in yesterday's CRIMSON that American intervention in Haiti had retarded progress in the island, this is not generally the case, according to H. H. MacCubbin '26, former secretary to the American Legation in Haiti.
Reported the Commission: "It would not do to create an impression that minor infractions are to be ignored. [But] speedy convictions and certain imposition of penalties are more likely to be efficacious than threats of severe punishment rendered nugatory by congested dockets."