Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America has been in a period of moral decay, according to Mumford, and it is high time that the public assume its duties of intelligent judgment and reasoning. Until each individual faces the problems of the immediate present, he cannot speak in terms of the future...
With grave, careworn Cordell Hull the reason is partly age (69 years j. Buried in the paper-shuffling details of his mountainous task, he very often does not realize what goes on in the intrigue-ridden old halls of the rococo Department. This rough judgment, made solely in the blazing exigencies of wartime, and without regard to the saintly Tennesseean's years of patient, farseeing service, is current in Washington...
This emergency is so dire, so immediate and so pressing that no effort we could conceivably make would be more than just enough. The very best we can possibly do . . . will be just good enough, with nothing to spare. . . . Such was the judgment passed on the U.S. defense problem last week by OPM's Director Donald M. Nelson...
...judgment not only of the magnitude of the emergency but of the insufficiency of present preparations. The President. William S. Knudsen, John D. Diggers, Donald Nelson of 0PM all cried that not enough was being done, that more and more and more had to be done...
...stories and blind alleys that has accompanied the capture and detention of Rudolf Hess, several Faculty professors well-acquainted with the situation inside Germany, have emerged with almost identical opinions. In view of the importance that has been attached to the Hess affair, the CRIMSON is presenting their composite judgment...