Word: mires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideal of fair but unswerving enforcement of law through the orderly processes of the courts. The other is that the office of Governor is one of dignity and honor. When a Governor makes a mockery of our courts and juries and drags his high office into the mire, I cannot remain silent...
...Byron's soul was mire...
...accept a luncheon invitation from Morgan Partner George Whitney without a twitter. When Joe Kennedy drafted him to conduct SEC's investigation of protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire of 200,000 committees, which in varying degrees were ostensibly protecting an investors' stake of $36,000,000,000, he will soon report his findings to Congress, probably with recommendations for toothy legislation...
Besides the mire and dust of gravel paths there is a greater total expense to the university. Asphalt requires very little upkeep and makes snow removal infinitely cheaper and more rapid. The use of dangerous and unsightly narrow wooden walks in winter is unnecessary; the expensive storage and repair of these may be abandoned...
...weeks President Roosevelt has been pulled and hauled between two conflicting ideas on cotton loans. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace saw that the 12? loan policy, if extended, would mire the Government in surplus cotton, perhaps sink the AAA in financial failure. Therefore he argued stoutly against any continuation of the 12? loan. Southern Senators and Representatives, thinking only of political effects, yowled and yammered for another year of 12? cotton, warned the New Deal it would lose all its Southern friends if it did otherwise. An able compromiser, President Roosevelt finally approved the AAA plan announced last week. To guarantee...