Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons for reducing the loan period to two weeks is the opinion expressed by several undergraduate publications last fall. At that time the month loan was referred to as an "old complaint," and the two week period used in the majority of college and university libraries was suggested...
...second opinion was delivered by Associate Justice Florence Ellinwood Allen, only woman on the U. S. appeals bench, who stands well enough with the Administration to have been mentioned last year as a possible Supreme Court appointee. Sturdy Miss Allen laid down the first judicial yardstick of the lengths to which employers need go in trying to bargain with a union, displaying as much anxiety about quasi-judicial practices as that expressed last week by Charles Evans Hughes (see col. 2). Said she: "The statute merely requires the employer to negotiate sincerely. The sincerity is to be tested...
...Chicago's First National Bank had remarked that Government regulations hamper the free flow of credit. Said Jesse Jones: "There is a widespread feeling that credit is not readily available at banks on the character of security that many businesses have to offer, security that, in the opinion of the borrower, would furnish full protection for the lending bank. . . . I am firmly of the opinion that banks generally have not been particularly wise or energetic in meeting the credit needs of the country. . . . Banking is a franchise that carries responsibility, not merely a privilege. ... If banking is to remain...
When J. P. Morgan was called to testify at the famed Pecora investigation of 1933, a midget suddenly perched on his lap, embarrassing the famed banker mightily but making the whole proceeding so ludicrous that public opinion swung to the Morgan side. Last week when Banker Morgan and his son, Junius Spencer Morgan, went to the SEC offices in Manhattan to tell what they knew of the Richard Whitney case, the only embarrassment was the blinding flicker of photographers' bulbs. Eyes closed in resignation, J. P. Morgan took the stand for half an hour. Respectfully treated by SEC Lawyer...
...Colans' rabbi, Talmudist A. E. Abramovitz, gave no better help: "The Mosaic law does not deal with such problems. At the time the Bible was written surgery was not advanced to the extent that it is today, and such problems did not occur. ... It is my opinion that we should let nature take its course. Where men cannot correct, let God make His own decision...