Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allied also chose to walk alone in the chemical industry, ignoring its competitors' new policies and products until it slowly and surely passed judgment on the innovation. Partly, that was due to its remoteness from the public: its customers are steady and its products standard. A farmer may spread Arcadian nitrates on his fields; a townsman may drive his car over Tarvia roads or keep out the rain with Barrett roofing; a housewife may buy Polar moth balls. But the average indirect consumer never sees the aniline in his blue serge suit, the tanning alkalis in his oxfords...
...four-man conservative wing, wanted to know about was by what empiricism had the New Deal arrived at "fair trade" and labor "standards." Solicitor General Stanley Reed, making his maiden appearance as such before the Court, explained: "The only standard is what industry considers unfair, plus the judgment of the President as to whether they are fair trade provisions." Next day Counsel Richberg took over the ordeal, added that fair trade standards were established in accordance with "the common law" and with those standards which the industries "recognized before codes were adopted...
...JUDGMENT DAY-James T. Farrell- Vanguard ($2.50). Third volume in the hardboiled trilogy of Studs Lonigan...
...judgment of the learned journalists who regularly report the doings of U. S. scientists was taxed last week when they were obliged to decide which of five significant meetings they would attend and report: The American Chemical Society in Manhattan, the American Association of Physical Anthropology in Philadelphia, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society in Washington, the American Association on Mental Deficiency in Chicago. Consequently a savant's paper had to be of rare interest to attract attention. Here follow summaries of some pertaining to Medicine and the business of living...
Five years ago Claire Spencer caught many a U. S. reader's eye with her first novel, a black-avised melodrama called Gallows' Orchard. Because its youthful angularities seemed to hint of power in its not-yet-matured bone, critics reserved judgment, hoped to see its promise performed in Author Spencer's second book. Last week, after reading The Island, they wrote off Author Spencer as a case of arrested artistic development...