Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country, elections of local union officers were being completed. Though re-elected without opposition at the union's faction-torn convention last August, President Martin is by no means an unchallenged leader. The current local elections have little to do with local issues; they have become a judgment of the Martin administration. In each local auto workers were usually confronted with two slates: Progressive and Unity. (Both factions accuse each other of being false to their names.) The Progressives are led by Martin and his hand-picked assistant president, Richard Frankensteen. The Unity group is a combination of opposition...
...Eden, one of the most socially-conscious aristocrats who have ever been British Foreign Secretary, once told the House, Mr. Chamberlain reminded his hearers, that "our armaments may be used in bringing help to the victim of aggression in any case where in our judgment it would be proper under the conditions of the [League] Covenant to do so." The Prime Minister, indicating that His Majesty's Government have not renounced that pledge, went on to quote the further explanation of it by Mr. Eden, who continued : "I use the word 'may' deliberately, since, in such...
...Senator I would just as lief Willkie should be on the committee as the Senator from New Hampshire. ... He hates the TVA." Senator Norris had proposed an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. But to many Congressmen the idea of one group of Roosevelt appointees sitting in judgment on another looked, despite the sincerity of George Norris' intentions, too much like an unsatisfying whitewash...
...must consider the new situation clearly, but with cool judgment and with confidence that we shall be supported in asking that no one, whatever his particular preconceived notions may be, shall regard himself as excluded from any extension of national efforts that may be called...
...chosen. Apparently they are to be picked with the advice of departmental chairmen, yet undergraduates will have the right of final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment as a result of poor grades." But the committee cannot seriously believe that a man, with his fingers upon a Magna or Summa, will be impartial to his department...