Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to war the greatest source of economic waste in our national life is needless litigation...
Thus spoke Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce. Today Mr. Hoover may have other notions as to what constitutes prime peacetime waste but he is still an honorary president of the American Arbitration Association, whose sole purpose is elimination of needless litigation. Mr. Hoover's AAA maintains a quasi-judicial system throughout the and where business disputes may be settled quickly, cheaply, secretly...
Since Mr. Hoover made his last trip to New York ten days ago, sources close to the former President have started to predict that his hat is in the presidential ring. Needless to say, Mr. Hoover's reappearance as a candidate would doom the Republican Party to another four years of oblivion. And rightly...
...Needless to say, the magnitude of the new project on which the College is embarking makes any analysis of Mr. Plimpton's precise duties well-nigh impossible. Those who have conceived the new position expect him to spend the rest of this year investigating; the entire employment situation before embarking on definite policies...
...needless to comment on the unfairness of this situation. Why should a man, just because he went to Groton, shoulder the responsibility for the drastic economies which confront the Council on every front this year? He should not have to spend sleepless nights because his failure to give has deprived some fellow of an education or prevented some much needed charity. No, the Rector had better file his application today...