Word: mind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night before he spoke his mind, the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington announced its conditional approval of the transfer of eight ships of the United States Lines to the flag of the Republic of Panama. Banned from belligerent ports, banned from their regular North Atlantic runs because of the combat-areas provision of the Neutrality Act*, these vessels could travel to these ports under the Panama flag, could, moreover, carry arms. And although President Roosevelt announced he was holding up the transfer pending investigation, he expressed his opinion that the transfer did not violate the Neutrality Act because...
...second, the current teaching needs of the university. If these criteria are used it means the creation of an additional associate professorship whenever needed. Such a system of promotion does not necessarily imply a large block of frozen professors, but it does mean that the administration has an open mind regarding their possible...
...beauties of Socialism and the Marxist principles, was railroaded through at high speed, and none of the dissenting voters in the audience were given the opportunity either to state their own views or question those of the speakers. One member of the audience who attempted to speak his mind early in the meeting was threatened with ejection by the chairman in curt and poorly considered terms. When that speaker had managed to get out his message, the chairman dismissed him contemptuously with, "All right, you've had your...
...free speech for any working-class organization, however corrupt or degenerated it may be. We think Mr. Greene made a dangerous generalization when he affirmed his own taste to be the taste of the Harvard students. The subsequent outcry must have certainly raised some doubts in Mr. Greene's mind. And the collective action of the student body through its various organizations would certainly help Mr. Greene clear his mind on the question of good or bad taste. Consequently we think that Mr. Greene should rescind his denial of a hall and, by doing so, he will certainly show...
...world première in Toronto. However topical, the play is not so much straight political satire as one more Shavian exercise in deflating the human race, one more proof that the world's most famed vegetarian is intellectually a cannibal. Shaw's mischief-hungry mind first conceived of Geneva when he learned that The League of Nations possessed something called the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. When he decided that the Committee showed few signs of intellect and fewer of cooperation, he licked his chops and fell to. In Geneva the committee consists of a single...