Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chester, chairman of General Foods Corporation, speaking at the same meeting as Dr. Bruening, outlined a seven-point plan for cooperation between business and school authorities for placing college graduates in jobs...
Although there are numerous other names on the list of possible men which President Roosevelt is studying now, every one has some handicap which would make the President hesitate before naming him. Against Professor Frankfurter there are only two bad points from the White House point of view. The first is that during the bitter fight last year, when Mr. Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court was engaging the interest of the country Professor Frankfurter refused to stand at Armageddon and do battle for the Sage of Hyde Park...
...only other point against the Wizard of Langdell Hall, is that he is not a Westerner. The West has been becoming more clamorous recently in their demand for a Supreme Court Justice. Never in the history of the country has a man born west of the Mississippi River been appointed to the Supreme Tribunal. Mr. Justice Sutherland, who is listed as hailing from Utah, was born in England, and Mr. Justice Field, who held sway during the seventies and eighties, although he was registered from California, really was an Eastern invader from new York...
...findings of the party in the Far East point to the existence of rich Cenozoic deposits throughout the East Indies, Indian, and China. Scientists are particularly eager to penetrate into southern China, from which the Sino-Japanese War now unfortunately excludes all research parties...
With fresh intimation from Germany that the Jewish persecution will not cease until the point of extermination has been reached, the Corporation's voting of twenty scholarships for refugee students comes like a voice from some free, untroubled world. Naturally, this august ruling body is not enmeshing itself financially, for it has stipulated that no awards, which amount to $500 apiece, will be made unless the Undergraduate Committee on Refugee Students can raise an equalize. Furthermore, the University is in part covered by a generous gift of $5000, and it looks very probable that the remainder will be donated...