Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escaped from a Georgia chain gang in 1931 after assaulting another girl. The other was that his real name was B. B. ("Bunce'') Napier. On his trembling lap lay a Bible opened to Matthew 7: 1-2: Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Napier said he guessed he knew how Leo Frank felt that night...
John Francis Curry was not the worst leader Tammany Hall ever had since its founding as a patriotic society 145 years ago. But he was afflicted with such stubbornly bad judgment that last week he had the distinction of being the first Tammany boss to be booted out of his job by his disgruntled followers...
President Ernest Martin Hopkins delivered the eulogy: "He had strength of character combined with a sweetness which made it persuasive. He had uncommon mental capacity, entirely devoid of intellectual arrogance. He had that charm of personality which attaches to one of independent judgment. He had that quality of soul which makes a man a spiritual influence, whether within or without the forms of conventional religious expression. Remembrance of him is too vivid to put in the past tense. The memories of him are of a boy whom to know about was to admire, whom to work with was to respect...
...shifting to them the burden of proving their innocence. He declared that, to be eligible, each company must swear none of its officers had been guilty of fraud and collusion. No company officers had been tried, all claimed they were innocent, yet General Farley reserved to himself final judgment of the truth of the companies' affidavits. Only Cord man on the Farley blacklist was R. C. Marshall, a division manager of American Airways, who was quietly detitled last week when American Airways was changed to American Airlines, in which Controller Cord does not appear as either officer or director...
Each man gives five major speeches and several shorter ones. Basing their judgment on these speeches, the instructors criticize each man's way of speaking, his "platform manner", and the content and organization of his speech. Many a student learns for the first time that he talks too fast or that when on the rostrum he contorts his body to such a degree that his audience becomes quite dizzy in trying to follow both his actions and his speech...