Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Vandenburg's comment that the nomination is excellent "in view of the circumstances" is a favorable reflection on the President's good judgment in selecting Reed. Mr. Roosevelt might have picked a senatorial progressive who has fought many political battles for the administration or be might have chosen a brilliant professor who has done much to reshape legal thinking. But such an appointee would inevitably have been scored as just a partisan agent or an impractical theorist. By appointing a lawyer who has won the admiration of administration critics, the President has accomplished his purpose without offending a large...
...undergraduate who waits until his senior year to consider these questions will find the pressure of securing congenial employment warping his judgment as he seeks more and more earnestly, toward Commencement Day, to establish himself satisfactorily in some...
Unwritten Recipe. Three Post editors spend one day each week in Manhattan interviewing writers, searching among book publishers' galleys and agents' piles of manuscripts for Post material. The rest of the week, from 9 to 5:15, all eight devote to reading and passing judgment on the 600 "first-class" manuscripts that come in each week from literary agents and to replying to some 90 letters apiece each day from inquiring, laudatory or abusive readers. It is an old Lorimer custom that no matter how trivial or routine the communication, it must get a personal reply from...
Finally, after a day of questioning, hard-boiled Judge Geiger ruled: "It is my judgment that the Department of Justice did not have the power to negotiate with these parties for a consent decree during the pendency of the grand jury inquiry and that it was not proper for the parties to get together to deal on matters that were within the terms of probable indictments. For these reasons, there is nothing for me to do but discharge the grand jury...
...little dickering moved into E. B. Smith. Senior partner of this bigger & better E. B. Smith was the old Guaranty Co. President, Joseph Rockwell Swan, to whom Senator Wheeler once remarked, in connection with Van Sweringen financing: "I do not doubt your good faith but I do doubt your judgment." The old firm had capital and the Guaranty men had connections-most important factor in investment banking. Among the new partners from Guaranty Co. was a man named Fish...