Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardened to recurrent criticism of his Public Works Administration, Secretary Ickes picked up an obvious political club to strike back at Al Smith: "It is impossible to satisfy any man who is nourishing a grudge as the result of disappointed ambitions. Mr. Smith is permitting his resentment against the Administration to run away with his judgment. He is apparently under the illusion that the coining of sarcastic phrases and the hurling of epithets will be misunderstood by sober-minded citizens for sound reasoning. The Civil Works Administration was a logical development of the public works program. It was designed...
...forbid all bank officers to have any financial interest in syndicates distributing securities to the public or in stockmarket pools inasmuch as such syndicates and pools are likely borrowers from banks. Declared Mr. Aldrich, taking an obvious fling at his Chase predecessor Albert Henry Wiggin, "Banking experience has conclusively demonstrated the undesirability of participation by bank-officers in transactions of this kind...
...obvious that the special license which might be issued to the University is limited by the foregoing section to one permitting the dispensing of malt beverages only, which are defined in Section 1 of the act, to include "all alcoholic beverages manufactured or produced by the process of brewing or fermentation of malt. . .and containing not more than twelve percent of alcohol by weight". It is further obvious that such a special license may be issued only if Cambridge votes to permit all forms of liquor or if it votes to issue licenses for the sale of malt beverages...
...broad and general reforms suggested by Italy will only make the League a mild moral force with the membership of the United States still most dubious. It now seems obvious that the world has not yet reached the stage for international government. Until it does reach that stage, such reforms would only preserve a sentiment and a symbol that may later be made a concrete organ of international government...
...fact that no reason was given for the action in no way obscures its obvious aim. The Church has succeeded in the elimination of the Communists and hence have no desire to support either Dollfuss or the Nazis, both of whom they agree with. The clerics have waged a long and bitter fight against the steady rise of Marxism, with especial success among the doltish peasantry. As was pointed out by me last week, the Marxian socialist party, long Austria's most powerful party, is now practically dead. The man who did this was Engelbert Dollfuss, the party who made...