Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court before final judgement is made and date of execution set. At that time none on condemned row had gone through the Supreme Court. At date of this letter my appeal is still before the Court. In cases where the Supreme Court upholds conviction it usually is a matter of 3 to 4 months before actual execution takes place...
...letter asked each of us to bequeath the cornea with a pious reference to Mr. Harding being a Minister. The letter indicated that it was Mr. Hardings belief that death was a matter of a few days in the future and that he wanted his cornea right away. Naturally you can appreciate this was impossible to work out in this...
...John L. Lewis this was all a very serious matter, for U. A. W. has every sign of being C. I. O.'s soundest long-term asset. Unlike mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
...Marie chanced instead to ask her friend whether he expected their romance to be celebrated by a cinema like the one in which this ironic little conversation occurs, any sensible young Swede, no matter how well-mannered, would certainly have answered no. Hollywood's tumbrils began rumbling five years ago, when an MGM story reader reported that Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette was "thoroughly modern, thoroughly plausible and slightly censorable." The picture was listed on the late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director...