Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wave has swept over our legislative halls to cure all ills by the enactment of more laws. In our judgment this course hamstrings business and slows down general progress...
...Chicago debtors' court stood sad, portly, white-wooled Oscar De Priest, onetime (1929-34) Negro Congressman from Illinois. The judge asked whether he could pay a $38 judgment in favor of a stationer, got this reply: "I am penniless and looking for a job." All but $1,500 of his money Oscar De Priest sank in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election last autumn. The last $1,500 went for income taxes...
...actual course of history. Conversations may be invented, but the characters are all out of the past. And Neumann's analysis of personality and motive is strictly in accordance with the probabilities. His Louis Napoleon is the real Louis Napoleon, a mixture of clownishness, perseverance, luck and good judgment...
...Boston," wrote Lincoln Steffens, "has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure." In the light of Mayor Mansfield's dictum regarding Sean O'Casey's widely acclaimed drama, "Within the Gates," the judgment of the former muckraker is amply justified. His Honor the Mayor has taken it upon himself, at the urging of the Catholic Church, to brand a play termed "great" by the most experienced dramatic critics in the United States as "nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut...
Waiting the Judgment...