Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merely a Label? India's representative on the tribunal, Judge Radhabinode Pal, filed a minority opinion violently dissenting from the majority verdict. Repeating the criticisms made by the critics of Nurnberg, Judge Pal said that there was no satisfactory definition of "aggressive war" in international law, that "aggressors" was merely a label applied by conquerors to the conquered. This was echoed by Manhattan's Daily News, which warned U.S. military leaders that they were already being labeled "aggressors" by Russia and that they had better win the next war if they wanted to avoid Tojo's fate...
...commit such sinful errors again. As far as the A.P. was concerned, it had done its usual good job of reporting the state-by-state returns with speed and accuracy. But, like everybody else, it had been slow to realize that the vote was going to contradict the opinion polls. Said the New Orleans Times-Picayune's George W. Healy Jr.: "Even when Truman was leading, [A.P.] always put Dewey first, saying he was leading in ten states with say 100 electoral votes, and Truman was leading in 14 states with 280 electoral votes...
...reported, "That's the first time I ever had a lunatic engineer," Mr. Dewey said sharply,' the A.P. desk in New York shouldn't have changed 'sharply' to 'facetiously'. . . At what point do you slip over from explanatory reporting and get into opinion, so that you should be run on the editorial page?" Wilbur Cogshall of the Louisville Courier-Journal said that individual papers must decide. When Cogshall's paper finds Scotty Reston too interpretive, it runs Reston on the editorial page...
...Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political Prisoner John Wilkes in the King's Bench prison. Wilkes had 15 guests in his cell that day, and Rush noted that he had an extra room for his ilbrary, "from which I formed an indifferent opinion of his taste and judgment." In France, Rush saw Louis XV, who "had a good eye, and an intelligent countenance, and hence he was said to be "the most sensible looking fool in Europe.' " The great Encyclopedist, Diderot, entertained Rush in his library, and the Marquis of Mirabeau invited...
...entire memorial was solely an alumni concern, and a committee of the alumni board and the University Council made the final decision. Student opinion seems generally to favor the proposal, and there has been no organized protest against...