Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reading, last issue's lead story in TIME'S National Affairs department on the mood & temper of the U.S. at this season appears to be the product of one, man's judgment...
...Vancouver's new-broom mayor, rambunctious Gerry McGeer had started his sweeping by firing 23 policemen for letting gambling dens and brothels run wide open. Last week, as chairman of the city's Police Commission, he sat in judgment on their appeals. Vancouverites were shaken by the unorthodox McGeer way of running a hearing: he paid no attention to traditional rules of evidence banning hearsay, opinion or conjecture. But they were fascinated by the dirt this method dredged up, particularly from a stocky gambler named Louis Tisman...
...Sanuk dee" (very entertaining), was the audience's judgment on the movie, as a movie. The only man in Siam capable of giving an absolute verdict on its accuracy was unable to attend. Just as the movie began, the Bangkok radio took the air to announce that death, after hovering long near his hilltop suburban home, had come at last to scholarly, slim, 84-year-old Prince Naris (pronounced Nar-ritt), 62nd child and last surviving son of the movie's hero, King Mongkut...
...decision was in, handed down, surprisingly, on a Thursday afternoon. Monday is usually "judgment day" in the U.S. Supreme Court. But the opinions of the justices were written, and Chief Justice Fred Vinson knew they were too hot to keep from a watchful press...
Harvard Historian Edward Channing, for one, called it a work of "almost unrivaled historical judgment." Columbia's Allan Nevins has singled out its first six chapters, plus one chapter of Macaulay, as "the best specimens of social history in English...