Word: obloquy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This eminently reasonable question had already been answered a few minutes before. In a series of majority opinions, the U.S. Supreme Court redeemed itself from the obloquy which fell upon it last year after a decision written by Justice Stanley Reed, which prevailed in a 5-to-4 decision. Then the Court had upheld city ordinances denying the obstreperous sect called Jehovah's Witnesses the right to peddle their literature without a license. The Reed decision held that free speech, free press, and freedom of religion may, despite the Bill of Rights, be limited-"to times, places and methods...
...large the people seemed unaffected by this universal obloquy, however darkly their critics talked. When the Gallup Poll asked, Do you think the United States is doing all it can toward winning the war? some 78% offhandedly answered...
...hardheaded thinker who began at Yale in 1872 a study he called the "science of society." Professor Gabriel is as trenchant, critical and readable on Sumner as he is on Adams, James, Royce and 19th-20th Century thinkers generally. And he rescues Sumner's importance from the forgetful obloquy it has suffered (outside New Haven) in recent years...