Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Los Angeles Drs. Thomas James Orbison and Edward Huntington Williams, frequent participants in Pacific Coast criminal trials, were summoned to testify for the defense. Alienist Orbison swore that Lieut. Massie was suffering from "delirium with ambulatory automatism" at the time of the shooting but that he was quite sane now. Dr. Williams declared that Lieut. Massie's glands were responsible for his unbalanced condition, that he had been temporarily afflicted with "chemical insanity or shock amnesia." Both experts agreed that his troubles had been brought on by intense worry about his wife and that his symptoms could...
...famed predecessor Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, a choleric Free Trader who attacks the present Chancellor's tariff policies on any & every occasion. With the Olympian condescension of a Chamberlain, the new Chancellor declared last week: "Lord Snowden's last budget is a model example of secure but sound and sane finance. We are now £9,000,000 better off than Lord Snowden anticipated...
...finally the problem of his re-entry into a hostile society with which he has lost touch. The experiment about to be tried in Rhode Island is concerned only with the prison system itself. What is much more important and far harder to achieve is the spread of a sane attitude toward crime in the mind of the general public...
...relief before the country are economic problems, not political. No greater danger could befall this nation than to have the American people wept off their feet by political quackery or demagoguery and the promise of prosperity to come which cannot be conjured out of a hat by political legerdemain. Sane, well considered, sound economic thought and action alone can bring a semblance of restoration to our shattered prosperity. In my opinion Herbert Hoover, from every angle by which one might approach this problem, is best qualified to carry out such a course...
...banking house of Bonbright & Co. A close personal and political friend of the President's, Senator Walcott together with Senator James Couzens persuaded the Committee to investigate bulls as well as bears. "We are not seeking sensational-ism," he said. "And we are going about this in a sane way. There is no intention ... to seek legislation interfering with the regular operations of the stock exchanges...