Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important business: Chief Justice Hughes pronounced an eulogy of their colleague, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who had died soon after last term's end. "In-expressibly saddened." was Chief Justice Hughes's sentiment for the whole Court. Next most important: 31 lawyers-all men-were formally admitted to practice before the Court...
...Sentiment throughout the little nation was strong for defense against the Germans to the last inch, the Harvard Juniors found. Tenseness and preparations for war were everywhere in evidence...
...case of Japan-China, Mr. Roosevelt has so far been able to preserve the fiction that a "state of war" does not exist because it has never been "declared." He has been able to do so, without threat of impeachment, because the sentiment in Congress which rammed through the Neutrality Act is on the side of the party which the Act, if enforced, would hurt most. Unless war between Czechoslovakia, Germany and other powers were formally declared, the President could again preserve the fiction and all U. S. hands would be free from the Neutrality Act's rigid restrictions...
...lesser evils around Harvard Square in recent years has been the practice of panhandling by clever professional hums. Newcomers to Harvard, especially, should be aware of this insidious form of getting aims, for by giving these men nickels and dimes they stoop to the weakness of misplaced sentiment. Not only do they abet a common evil, but at the same time they work against organized Cambridge charities...
From 6 p. m. till sunrise one night last week the air waves below the commercial broadcast band crackled busily with the call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development...