Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giving tired politicos scant rest, Premier Laval forced them to work with him all day, drafting an emergency-powers law much more limited in scope than had previously been asked. Partial victory came when the Chamber Finance Committee approved the text. Then Premier Laval went straight to the Chamber at 6 p. m., paid no heed to his frigid reception without cheers, asked the suspicious Deputies to approve a bill of one single article reading thus...
...slackening our pace, or bearing it intermittently; by avoiding excessive specialization thereby lessening our dependence on others, and by developing our knowledge of facts and wisdom in applying these facts, and by developing a philosophy and a faith to take the place of that which our increased but still partial knowledge has shaken or destroyed...
Last week this sorest of Baltic feuds was suddenly reported about to be healed by a Polish-Lithuanian peace pact. Partial confirmation came when Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, instead of scouting the rumors, remarked pointedly that on his latest visit to the League of Nations he had a long chat in Geneva with the Lithuanian Minister to Paris, Dr. Petras Klimas whom he had hitherto avoided like the plague...
...late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who left half of his $550,000 estate as a gift to the U. S. Question was whether the gift should merely be dumped into the General Fund of the Treasury or set aside for some special purpose. Music lovers were suggesting a partial endowment for the National Symphony Orchestra. Justice Holmes preferred burlesque shows to concerts...
Before Arthur ("Dutch Shultz") Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left...