Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world upon him. His task is likely to be an irritating one, for when he accomplishes his proposed removal of obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments, and an oil scandal...
...cultivation of speakeasies, gun-men, petty grafters, ward politicians, and such evidences of a highly civilized federation that he can be said to have achieved the true American kultur. The one existing institution comparable to any in America has just been banished by Premier Maniu, and now, in strict pursuance of his policy of imitation, he must recall the governing body of aristocrats that was for so long Roumania's Tammany Hall. The world is eying Premier Maniu, America gratifiedly, and the rest with politely concealed but horrified misgivings. May he, in his innocence, discover before it is too late...
...Power Commissioners. But if the decision goes against Senator-resigned du Pont, their presence will not greatly temper the Senate's disapproval of Mr. Insull and the Insull lawyer, Secretary West. Senator-resigned du Pont is, moreover, a Republican; so his Senator friends may feel free to transgress strict party allegiance in a vote on Secretary West...
...magna or summa cum laude must at least equal the ability of those who obtain a general cum laude inasmuch as a man's entire record is examined before distinction is conferred upon him. The requirements in general excellence are for the degree summa and magna cum laude very strict, unless I have been misinformed. It is clear, therefore, that the unfortunate men who receive high honors, have as broad a culture as their brethen who receive a general cum laude...
...subject "The influence of the Press as a Cause of International Conflict", the action of the Hearst papers during the Spanish-American war was especially viewed with disapprobation. The representative papers of the individual countries were laid open to investigation and severe criticism, and the policy of strict censorship followed by Mussolini which allows at the same time the invasion of diplomatic relations with both France and Switzerland...