Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zionist dream of making Palestine a Jewish State is doomed to failure, says Mr. Antonius, if for no other reason than that the Arab peasantry prefers death to giving up its land. Disgraceful as he considers the German treatment of Jews, the "cure for the eviction of Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland. ... No code of morals can justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another." He denies emphatically that Jewish money in Palestine has helped the lot of the Arab masses...
...finance the Town Warming, no one expected it to amount to much: Jewel Tea Co. would make up the deficit. The plan itself was simply to get as many Barringtonites as possible to go to a series of lectures (free to all regardless of "economic status, or any other reason") in the High School Auditorium, with an invocation by a local minister and community singing...
...reason for Composer Ives's long obscurity is his horror of publicity. Though he has lived and worked in the midst of Manhattan's hubbub, he has never taken any part in the city's musical life. He never goes to concerts, abhors evening dress, is mortally terrified of being photographed. He never reads daily newspapers, and no journalist has ever succeeded in interviewing...
...year-old Harold Fowler McCormick, millionaire head of the Chicago harvester clan, has recently been seriously ill with bronchopneumonia. Last week attorneys for Mrs. Olive Randolph Colby, Kansas City widow who is suing him for $2,000,000 (breach of promise), asked that the trial date be advanced. Reason: because of a crowded court calendar, the plaintiff saw "grave danger" that the defendant might not live until the case is reached...
Brewster & Co., builders of swank automobile bodies, sued Mrs. Blanche J. Parks, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. newspaper publisher, for $600, balance she owed on a $5,000 body for her Rolls-Royce. Mrs. Parks's reason for not paying up: her escort could not sit in the back seat with his topper...