Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panic. By & large, the U.S. accepted the fact with grim concern, but with no panic. In Congress an irresponsible few talked nervously of the desirability of moving some Government agencies out of Washington. A few resurgent isolationists seized on it as a reason for scuttling all international programs from MAP to the Marshall Plan. But most reaction was sober, balanced (see PRESS) and a little sardonic. Men told each other wryly: "Better get out your old uniform." Others joked about getting a cabin in the hills. Many talked of a feeling of relief that the period of waiting was over...
There were some immediate and obvious revisions to make. The Air Force, which had been budgeted at 48 groups, had a powerful new reason for going onto a 70-group schedule as soon as Congress provided the money. The Air Force, heavily accenting bomber construction, would also have to emphasize another kind of plan: it would need more interceptors than it has contracted for. It would also have to speed work on construction of a 24-hour radar net across the Arctic frontier from Alaska to Greenland...
Exit in Haste. In 1924, after the U.S. Senate broke the Teapot Dome scandals, Blackmer abruptly abandoned the good life in Colorado, packed up a law library and plenty of money, and fled to France. There was plenty of reason for his flight; Government investigators had discovered that Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had $230,500 worth of Continental's Liberty bonds, which prosecutors charged had come from Harry Sinclair as a bribe...
Davis: Does the French government believe in reason and conscience...
...greatest founding since the University of Chicago Law School in this century." A onetime professor at the University of Nebraska, later a corporation lawyer with General Electric Co., and for the last three years dean of Vanderbilt University's law school, Coffman had good reason to be happy at his big premiere. As its chief academic attraction he had persuaded Roscoe Pound, retired dean of the Harvard Law School and revered in the field of jurisprudence, to serve as "visiting professor" at U.C.L.A. (Because he is 78 and far past U.C.L.A.'s retirement age, Pound signed up only...