Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Idaho exploded: "I haven't read Professor Dodd's statement. ... I do not propose to descend to the level of reading such irresponsible scandalmongers. I regard him as a disgrace to his country. I have an idea his supposed dictatorship is the figment of a disturbed mind...
...Fuquay Springs. N. C.: "Will knows everything. You can bet your last dollar that whenever Will says anything he knows what he is talking about. And, furthermore, you might as well try to move the sun as try to make Will tell anything that he's not a mind to tell. He's nearly as stubborn...
Last fortnight Assistant Attorney General Jackson, one of the nation's ablest trial lawyers, went to Pittsburgh and did his persuasive best to make Judge Gibson change his mind. He denied that the charges of 1912 and 1937 were identical. In 1912, he declared, the Government had only sought to restrain Aluminum Co. from, certain monopolistic practices; now it was trying to dissolve the company. Since 1912 the company had expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa...
Judge Gibson retired to his chambers to ponder these perplexities. Last week he emerged to announce that his mind was unchanged, to strengthen his restraining order by issuing a temporary injunction. Final hearing on a permanent injunction would be held later. Thoroughly vexed at this stubborn obstacle in their path, Government attorneys pondered whether to make one more attempt to win Judge Gibson over; to try to get the Manhattan Court to enjoin him; or to appeal the case to a higher Federal Court...
After noting the lack of discipline and direction which marked the Republican campaign of 1936, Master Mind Michelson pronounced: 'The party, in my opinion, needs a Mark Hanna, or a Matt Quay." First declaring that he does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous...