Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduced to an institution whose function it was to comfort the aged and to wipe the eyes of those who couldn't take it in the struggle of life. Now all our compromises, our sins, our apostasy are coming back to roost in one awful tide of judgment. And we are afraid of the Communists, afraid of the atomic bomb, afraid of a depression, afraid of Catholics, afraid of anything and everything fearful, afraid of God." Dr. Rutenber's remedy: to "return to God and the raw Christianity of our origins...
Millions of Americans would have been maimed or killed in battle and the remainder enslaved or gassed, if they had permitted such blind prejudice against "others" to sway their judgment to the point of refusing those "others" (from Britain, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe and elsewhere) the right to volunteer to save the lives of these Americans and of those dear to them-in the big fight against the Axis...
...Cooler Judgment. In Washington, the U.S. Board on Geographical Names was asked to change the name of Warm Pond, N.Y., to Highland Lake, on the reasonable ground that it is 1) not a pond, but a lake, 2) not warm, but cool...
...years Hollywood stalled off judgment day by consent decrees (which later lapsed) and legal shadow boxing in the lower courts. But last week, when the final decisions in four cases came in the Supreme Court, antitrust won almost all its points. The court...
...Held that the Griffith, Schine and Stanley chains had monopolized the movie business in their areas, and ordered the district court to pronounce a judgment that will strip the defendants of "the full dividends of their monopolistic practices." In effect, a ceiling was put on the growth of regional chains...