Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defend our Government. . . . Whatever tends to lessen the willingness of citizens to discharge their duty to bear arms . . . detracts from the strength and safety of the government. The influence of conscientious objectors ... is apt to be more detrimental than their mere refusal to bear arms. The fact that, by reason of sex, age or other cause they may be unfit to serve, does not lessen their purpose or power to influence others...
...Justice Holmes, a most liberal and learned member of the high court, dissented with brilliant vigor, drawing Justices Brandeis and Sanford to his reasoning. Because Mme. Schwimmer believed ardently in peace at any price, Mr. Justice Holmes could see no reason to deny her citizenship on that account. Declared...
Three days after President Hoover had pledged his administration to the Constitution in general and the 18th Amendment in particular, Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin resigned as New York's Republican National Committeewoman. Her reason: "I want to devote my untrammeled efforts toward working for a change in the Prohibition law." Her friends awaited developments, well knowing that the slim, smiling, brown-eyed wife of Manhattan Banker Sabin did not drop, without finishing, what she took up. Last week came some developments...
...talk to you," said he, "on the necessity of being a snob ... a gentleman, belonging to the ruling class. You have got to take the rule away from the bootlegger, the politician and the man who came up from one suspender button. . . . Put on a front. One of the reasons for Harvard's greatness is that in all her 300 years she has put on a big front. Harvard never apologizes, never argues, never listens to criticism, but goes on calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation applies also...
Lutherans, Too. What other sects sought for, three New York synods of the Lutheran Church accomplished when the New York Ministeriam, the Synod of New York, and the Synod of New York and New England became one last week in Albany. The reason for this juncture, which brought together 390 churches, 454 clergymen, 208,008 communicants, was obvious. All three cover much the same territory...