Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite this plug for merit, the law's love for the status quo found reflection in a report of the committee on the "increasing number of governmental bureaus and boards." Declaimed Delaware Delegate James R. Morford: "We must guard in any proposed alteration of our inefficient political bureaucracy against the very real dangers which inhere in a non-political and efficient bureaucracy. One permanent threat to liberty is involved in the future development of civil service...
...Sinner Take All" is one of the best co-features in quite a while. It begins and almost ends as a murder picture of unusual merit with good dialogue and acting by Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay. Though having a comparatively simple plot, it slips into the pilate of most murder stories when it concludes with the murderer being discovered at a dinner party. Of course, he is the one least suspected and with the thinnest of motives...
...although anyone with $500,000 to spend can buy a copy. Consequently Critic Canby, reading one of the two copies in the Library of Congress was one of the most fortunate of book reviewers, since few readers are in a position to disagree with his judgments on the literary merit and historical value of The Mint...
Professor Rossby's talk was of special interest to flyers as well as to scientists and is an example of the type of talk of general interest as well as scientific merit that will be presented...
Appearing as associate counsel for two of the three appellants-W. H. H. Chamberlin, Inc., E. C. Stearns & Co. and Associated Industries of New York State, Inc.-Lawyer Henry S. Fraser of Syracuse decried the law's justice in giving benefits to workers regardless of need or merit, implied that New York children would soon be chanting as did German children when social insurance was adopted...