Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time by the enlarged Court, and also in the new judges that aid in making those decisions. For "the appointment of a body of judges chosen for a specific purpose will not only lessen the confidence of the people in the Court, but will inevitably result in putting a stigma on these new judges themselves and make them objects of contempt, however conscientious or independent they may prove to be. They would be King's men". A sombre warning for any one with ambitions to sit on the new bench...
...what they're arguing about!" said the former representative. "The Massachusetts law isn't as harsh as other states' laws." He was amazed at the statement that the oath law places a stigma on the teaching profession. "No, no!" he cried, "the oath law doesn't accuse the teachers, it honors them...
...good reason why he had no such intention was that the best remembered precedent for it was Woodrow Wilson's stumping expedition for the League of Nations. To that method belonged the stigma of failure and the bad aftertaste of an unpopular issue. Another reason was that if Franklin Roosevelt made such a tour it would be construed as an admission that the fate of his Court plan was precarious. Best reason of all was that Franklin Roosevelt had something that Woodrow Wilson did not have: the all-pervasive radio. He had scheduled a radio "fireside talk" for next...
...first quarter-century of its history as a parade of sport and fashion, the National Horse Show, traditional premiere of the New York social season, was hampered by the fact that the horse was a standard means of conveyance. Not until the automobile removed its last stigma of practicality did the Horse Show really come into its own. Since the War, while the utility of the show horse has declined to the vanishing point, the glittering popularity of the Horse Show has enormously increased. New events, active and frivolous, replacing stodgy regiments of carriage horses, have made the whole affair...
...attacked the Republicans for their use of the Communism stigma in connection with the Democrats, calling it a cheaper and more unworthy slogan that has ever been invented...