Word: ponderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder in the holdup of a Manhattan gambling house.* When Governor Lehman had heard all, he solemnly shook the mothers' hands, took a last look into their five anxious faces (see cut), promised to ponder his decision...
Last week 250 U. S. grownups met solemnly in Manhattan to ponder the significance of the children's museum movement. All of them hailed it as a step forward in progressive education. Dr. William G. Vinal of Massachusetts State College called them "workshops in democracy . . . laboratories of patriotism...
Gradually Washington came to recognize that the Secretary of Agriculture was something more than a rural curiosity. He was a man of ideas which he liked to ponder long and deeply. At first a number of braintrusters were enrolled among his aides -Rex Tugwell and Jerome Frank among them. But their idealistic social dreaming was not in the same key as Henry Wallace's slow digestion of ideas...
...this piqued the die-hards in the industry, they had cause to ponder too. For Bill Douglas, though disclaiming any further death sentence plans "because of our belief that the substantial companies in the industry are making progress" in designing such reorganizations, also declared: "This action on the part of the commission means the commission means business...
...before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner in Buffalo, N. Y., the second battle in their campaign to remove these disparities came to an end. In Birmingham, Ala., three months ago, the South presented its side of the complex controversy; in Buffalo, the North had the floor. ICC will now ponder whose victory would be best for the U. S. as a whole...