Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act, won a verdict for triple damages. Lest the defendant hatters lose their homes and savings, A. F. of L.'s Sam Gompers asked all Federationists to chip in an hour's pay, and eventually settled the judgment for $251,000 including damages...
...world, which has so far been able to pass judgment only on Franco's none too striking military qualities, the biggest question mark about Spain was what kind of a ruler he will be. Will he become a dynamic dictator like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and join them in adventures against the peace of the world? Or will he simply be a routine, domestic military dictator of the type of Primo de Rivera, his predecessor? Will his government-after the war is over-be Fascist or will he restore the monarchy...
...could do away with the chapel bell . . . Asked Joe Jones, Count Basie's drummer, the other day how he could stand playing the pop tunes that all bands must. Reply was "Ah just leans back and Ah thinks of low lights and the right girl." Excellent criteria for the judgment of swing. The rhythm section of the band turned out a record this week called "How Long How Long Blues" and "Boogie-Woogie" that swings quietly . . . Jimmy Dorsey celebrated his tenth anniversary about a month ago. You'd think he would have run out of ideas...
...early age is far greater than in the humanities or the social sciences. There must be no application of the standards of one field to the problems of another, and publication alone cannot be accepted as the measure of achievement, nor should popular success be allowed to outweigh the judgment of professionally competent opinion. The presence in the upper ranks of the faculty of a few professors who are apparently exempt from the usual research requirements is not a very conspicuous phenomenon at Harvard, but it is demoralizing to the younger...
...position by a simple standard orientation problem; because the Oakland office failed to recognize the inconsistency of Stead's course with the course to be flown on the northeast leg, and for many other reasons, the Air Board found: 1) that the crash was due primarily to bad judgment by Pilot Stead and two Oakland dispatchers, Thomas P. Van Sceiver and Philip Stever Showalter; 2) that U. A. L.'s procedures for aiding aircraft under such an emergency were inadequate...