Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter for the individual to judge." The great difficulty with that stand being, of course, that the Society often takes it upon itself to judge the issue for all of New England. In its most controversial cases, Watch and Ward had been guilty of attempting to substitute the judgment of a committee of six for the considered opinions of all readers everywhere concerning the literature in doubt. When it comes to the fine difference between fifth for filth's sake, and reality for the sake of good literature, the Watch and Ward Society of 1946 once more lights its torch...
Unlike U.S. journalists, who are hired by the whim or good judgment of their editors, Japanese journalists are traditionally hired on the basis of formal examinations. Recently, 488 selected applicants for ten reporting jobs on Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun demonstrated their ability at composition, foreign language, Japanese vocabulary, dictation & rewrite...
...Dealers perhaps all of these men except Earl Warren and Harold Stassen were anathema. But not to the country at large. Senator Vandenberg had joined freely and courageously with Secretary of State Byrnes to form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate from hysterical legislation. Dewey's businesslike administration of New York has won him a popularity which would apparently re-elect him by a landslide. What about 67-year-old Ed Martin of Pennsylvania...
...Judgment. In Manhattan, Thomas Spurlock posed as a deaf-mute, handed cards to passers-by asking for help, got a nickel from one, growled: "Cheapskate," got 60 days...
...result of the Nűrnberg trial has been a well-deserved fate for a group of evil men . . . yet the force of the condemnation is not unaffected by the fact that the nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this...