Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another ex-New Dealer, General Hugh Johnson, whose own words are none too mild, wrote: "Freedom of speech, like trial by Jury, is a constitutional right-but not for Army officers. . . . The Army is for defense and not for dialectic. The minute it becomes a debating association in the public Press, it is no good for fighting...
...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...
...Minneapolis, pretty little Mrs. John Donlin charged her husband with assault & battery because, whenever he came home from seeing a wrestling match, he practiced holds on her, progressing from mild wristlocks to, finally, airplane whirls...
...Foreign Minister. "It is a century-old controversy, but they have admitted, and we consider that Mr. Eden has just admitted again, our 'assertion of claim.' ":* ¶Received with loud and significant cheers a speech by former Civil Lord of the Admiralty George Lambert in which this mild-mannered Liberal M. P. urged His Majesty's Government to "adopt a two-power air standard-a British Royal Air Force twice as strong as that of any other nation! . . . The League of Nations has failed, and we must rely on our own strong right arm. . . . There is more...
Even so, California last week had a great collection of other woes. Epidemic throughout the State were mild types of influenza and measles. Scarlet fever was increasing slightly. Epidemics of mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough reached their peaks last month, were last week on the decline. Gonorrhea has taken a great leap in California, half the new cases occurring in Los Angeles...