Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Senator Prentiss Brown in a Bunker Hill Day speech in Boston last week was a novel method of suppressing industrial warfare: repeal the Constitutional right to bear arms, a privilege guaranteed by the Bill of Rights to every U. S. citizen. While Senator Brown was advancing this notion, a Michigan Representative was invoking this very Constitutional privilege by turning his law office into a recruiting office for a private army...
...sentimental sociologists, the annual honors awarded by the 1,000 degree-granting U. S. colleges and universities provide a democratic U. S. equivalent of the British Honors List. As this year's kudos season opened, this notion was derided by Sportswriter John R. Tunis, writing on Honoris Causa in the June Harper's. Sneered Mr. Tunis: "Degrees are awarded with a canny eye for prestige, publicity, and good hard cash. . . . College trustees measure men by reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class...
...Waldo Emerson and a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did not relinquish his interest in Japanese affairs with his Ambassadorship. In 1935 he went back to Japan as head of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, whose report on Japanese industry acted powerfully to dispel the popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter between U. S. and Japanese cotton textile men, freezing...
...fine; for their guilty officers, and for political beneficiaries $1,000 fine, a year in jail) or a loophole had been found which needed plugging. Mr. Early wanted it recorded that when the President filled his idle hours writing his name on pieces of paper, he had no notion that they would be sold to corporate bibliophiles...
...General Lee has been elected president or rector of Lexington College .... We protest against the notion that he is a good instructor for youth or that he is fit to be put at the head of a college in a country situated in Virginia. A man who can do what he has done, take arms for a cause which nothing but his intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen...