Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of more essential feminine qualifications, either, if the judgment of such an authority as her good friend the late Dr. Alan Dafoe is to be trusted...
Ordinarily the Church would also have denied her burial in consecrated ground. But Catholic canon law in this respect is flexible, depending largely on the judgment of the local bishop. Since the Mexican Government frequently overrides Church decisions, a Mexican bishop might well be persuaded to grant what a California bishop would withhold. Hence Lupe Velez's body lies in holy ground. But if she took her life deliberately, her soul, according to Catholic doctrine, will find no rest through all eternity...
...Year idea caught on with a bang and, somewhat surprised, we decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade, nor a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone was runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928.) The two criteria are always these: who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did the most to change the news for better (like Stalin in 1942) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...Keating made his biggest splash in the report of his talk before the Cincinnati Businessmen's League. Said Keating: "Agencies are doomed unless they establish totalitarian principles . . . with clients. Businessmen should keep their fingers out of advertising. Many agencies are producing inferior advertising, against their better judgment, for fear of losing lucrative accounts and because account executives 'butter-up' the client...
...Errors of Judgment." The almost identical statements did not whitewash Kimmel and Short, both of whom had been charged with dereliction of duty in the earlier Roberts report (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942). In a calmer atmosphere, the Secretaries now found Kimmel and Short merely guilty of "errors of judgment." In one respect the Secretaries went farther than the Roberts report. They spread an indictment for bad judgment over "[naval] officers both at Pearl Harbor and at Washington," as well as other "officers in the field and in the War Department." (No names were mentioned...