Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, at the end of a first half-year course in government, the professor requested suggestions as to how the course might be improved, he displayed an attitude which could well be more generally adopted. No one is better qualified to pass judgment on courses than those who take them, and if the response to similar requests is intelligent and constructive, professors should be able to adapt their method and presentation to the changing demands of the times...
...Subsistence Homesteads when its original director, Milburn Lincoln Wilson, moved to the Department of Agriculture. Afterward the APer filed a dispatch quoting Manager Pynchon to the effect that the Government stood to lose $500,000 on the Reedsville project, with blame laid partly on "experimentation," partly on "errors in judgment." He also revealed that the President's No. 1 Secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, purchaser of the famed CCC toilet kits (TIME, June 12, 1933), was originator of the scheme to supply Reedsville with ready-cut houses...
...days later Manager Pynchon flatly denied having said anything about "experimentation," "errors in judgment," or a $500,000 loss. But already Mrs. Roosevelt and Col. Howe had stepped forward not to deny but to excuse the loss at Reedsville...
...hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect of the case when the time came to weigh Hauptmann's fate...
...Saints," goes the formula of the excommunication, "forced by the pressure of his contumacy, we excommunicate him with these words, and we proclaim him to be avoided until he shall have fulfilled that which is ordered so his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment." Last week Archbishop Diaz brandished this monstrous threat at Mexican traitors to the Church. He declared liable to excommunication...