Word: overtness
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...case of Gerald P. Nye, appointed by the Governor of North Dakota, the overt phase of the case is legal, not political. It is before a committee on privileges and elections headed by Senator Goff of West Virginia. Mr. Nye was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Ladd. The Governor has the power by state law to fill by appointment temporary vacancies in state offices. Is a U. S. Senator a state officer? Senator Goff thinks not. The matter will have to be thrashed out on the floor of the Senate. Mr. Nye is reckoned...
...habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager in the West, to the Commission. Then things began to happen-for the first time the conservatives were in control. Two overt acts...
...Opposition is daily guilty of moral violence against Fascism by painting it as something which it absolutely is not. Fascism has given wonderful proofs of discipline in the face of overt provocations and will continue to remain disciplined. But I ask you, who were my companions in the War, in the trenches, on the Carso, where we suffered and bled and fought and won together : 'Can we turn back...
...Republicans, during the past week, did the least of all in the way of overt acts. With satisfaction, they watched grain prices, which continued upward, and the favorable quarterly report of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Good conditions in agriculture and the steel industries do not make Republican supporters, but at least such conditions do not make Republican opponents. It is an axiom of politics that the fewer dissatisfied people there are, the better it is for the party in power. That is why the Republicans were pleased...
...justice is in publicity before the trial. Newspaper trials before the case is called have become an abomination. The dan- gerous initiative that newspapers have taken in judging and convicting out of court is journalistic lynch law. It is mob murder or mob ac- quittal in all but the overt act. It is mob appeal. Prosecuting attorneys now hasten to the papers with their theories and confessions. Defense attorneys do the same. Neither dare do otherwise. Half wit juries or prejudiced juries are the inevitable result...