Word: speciousness
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...MEYERLING-Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier-Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until...
...MASK is OFF ! . . .-The President's speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
...three years European economists have remained quietly sure that sooner or later President Roosevelt would eat some of the words with which in 1933 he wrecked the World Economic Conference, cabling to London: "The world will not long be lulled by the specious fallacy of achieving a temporary and probably an artificial stability in foreign exchange on the part of a few large countries only." Last week U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and French Finance Minister Vincent Auriol got together by transatlantic and trans-Channel telephone and apparently achieved...
FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...
Grounds were highly specious. The Republic's constitution allows the President to dissolve two Parliaments, the second dissolution being subject to review by the third Parliament. If the Cortes decides that the second dissolution was "unnecessary," the President must resign. The Leftists counted as No. 1 President Zamora's routine dissolution of the Republic's constituent assembly (not strictly a Parliament), as No. 2 last January's dissolution of the Cortes...