Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That this was not mere bombast Japan soon found out. When the prosecution closed by demanding death sentences for three of the ten prisoners and long jail terms for the rest, fierce indignation boiled up at Japanese Naval bases, scared the Government into forbidding the Press to print news of what was happening in Naval circles. Tokyo tingled with rumors that Naval hotheads were plotting fresh acts of terror to force out mild Naval Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi. Fire- eating Vice-Admiral Suetsugu, commander of the 2nd Naval Squadron, was supposed to be the plotters' candidate...
...proper salary for a big railroad president, Pennsy hired special accountants to prove that present salaries in terms of the "normal" 1913 dollar were actually lower than they were 20 years ago. President Atterbury's $103,883 wage was shown to be worth a mere $55,700 in 1913 money. Nevertheless, President Atterbury last week was moved to wire Coordinator Eastman that he had taken a cut to $60,000 Roosevelt. Gerhard Melvin Dahl, argumentative, square-jawed chairman of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (subway), who astonished lis squalling stockholders four months ago cutting his salary from...
...Franklin Roosevelt has none of Theodore's magnificent quixotry, none of his passion for fighting brilliantly in the name of a lost cause. The lost causes of Theodore Roosevelt have never seemed quite like the lost causes of anyone else. In the very early Albany era, his politics was mere moral indignation, but he vented it so resoundingly as to rid New York of a few petty pillagers of the till and to sweep himself into the governor's chair. During the war days, when he was one moment writing articles and the next going off to sulk because...
...their case the arrangement would be more than a social amenity. It would afford them practical openings to view their prospective residences more or less from the inside, and thus to make their final choice of House with a clearer eye than that of mere prejudice and untimely bias. A Freshman inter-House eating prerogative would moreover give much encouragement to friendships between upperclassmen and first-year men, which could be of essential benefit, but which are scarcely flourishing at the present. Certainly, under the wide aegis of the House Plan, the dinner table has come to be a focus...
...stupendous in its arrogance and mad in its implications. But more interesting, perhaps, than the fate of any one jurist is the whole problem of the redefinition of constitutionality which will face the ten old men in October. Balancing the Crawford case and the judicial act will be a mere breather beside the dexterity needed to iron out the NRA and the decision in Hammer vs. Dagenhart, which forbids the use of the interstate commerce power as a penalty on antecedent conditions of manufacturers, admittedly the trump around which the whole act is built...