Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I am very much "uninformed," but I'd like to know why no portrait of Harding hangs in the White House. Has such a portrait ever hung there? Is there any reason why one should not hang there? Has his picture been baned from the White House just as, according to some reports, it was banned from Republican Headquarters throughout the country, during the recent presidential campaign? Does TIME know? Will TIME tell...
...adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration of the term of the President who appointed him; 2) whether Andrew W. Mellon is disqualified as Secretary of the Treasury by reason of the law which forbids that officer to engage in business or commerce, etc., or the law which forbids Internal Revenue officers engaging in the tobacco or liquor business. The first part of this resolution was perfunctorily absurd* and would not have been urged if only Secretary Davis had been...
...believed it might result in considerable interest savings to the U.S. because: 1) bills need be sold only when money is actually required; 2) there would be no chance for error such as the Treasury's offering an issue at an unnecessarily high rate of interest (by reason of a poor estimate as to what rate will sell an issue), or offering an issue at too low a rate with the result that it would not be subscribed. The non-interest bearing certificates would simply be sold to the highest bidders and the rate of interest automatically fixed...
...walks, leaning heavily on two nurses, from one room to another, and sits by an open window for hours, watching the horses exercise on Bognor sands. But he does not seem able to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. It was said that this is the reason the Prince of Wales has paid only one visit to Craigwell House...
This penetrating indictment is one that might cause much pain and heart-searching to the conscientious college man. It might drive him to despair. It might induce him to abandon his hypocrisy and leave college. Fortunately, it will do none of these things, for the simple reason that the college man is, or should be, busy enough and sane enough to have no time for such speculations. If he reflects upon his own attitude toward his work, he passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important...