Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Justice Hughes and Associate Justice Owen Roberts, whose historic change of heart as exhibited by his decision on the Wagner Labor Act last spring stamped him as at least temporarily a liberal, belong to neither of the Court's well defined sides. Both are closer to the liberals than to their hard-shelled conservative colleagues with whom they were aligned in this week's employe bonus case. Among the Court's current liberal majority, the shadings of viewpoint are subtler. A single opinion, even when it is as eloquent as the one he read this week...
What made these auguries even more empty than usual last week was the plain fact that neither had a bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate...
Spark plug of the Group Theatre in recent seasons, with his outspoken Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing, Leftist Playwright Odets took to Hollywood last year, turned out melodrama that veered neither left nor right. That Hollywood has improved the Odets technique is apparent in the swift mounting of scenes, the extravagance of dramatic energy in Golden Boy. That his experience in the cinema has not lessened his power as a playwright of the masses is equally apparent. The Italian family of the play might have been sketched from behind the portieres of its own flat...
...praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time a reader arrives after 900 pages at Matisse and Derain, Braque and Picasso, he neither needs nor is given any disproportionate talk on these artists...
...crop control would continue. Last week, however, the Brazilian Government tired of playing Santa Claus, announced not only that production will no longer be limited but that the Brazilian coffee export tax will be cut some 75%. Said Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa: "It would be neither possible nor just that on Brazil only should fall the entire weight of its policy favoring...