Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Truly it is distressing to see Mary Woolley up in arms at the selection of Dr. Roswell Ham as President of Mount Holyoke. "Tell It to the Marines" was her summary of his qualifications to succeed her in office. It is not clear whether she hopes he will return to his war-time profession or whether she speaks as delegate-emeritus to the Disarmament Conference. An excess of self-conscious femininity started the tempest in South Hadley, and the longer the feathers and epithets fly between the women the closer their claim of equality approaches a slur on the dominant...
...short, Canadian statesmen have never yet grappled hard with New Deal actualities, as did President Roosevelt, his Johnsons, Wallaces, Tugwells and Ickeses-partly because it was an Old Dealer who dealt their New Deal, partly because they have been waiting for the Privy Council to tell them where they stood...
...university is the place of all places to grapple with those fundamental principles which rational thought seeks to establish. Too much of education, he says, is based on the false notion that education is a substitute, instead of a preparation, for experience. Of legal education he says: "To tell a law student that the law is what the courts will do and have him reach his conclusions on this point by counting up what they have done is to forego rational analysis, to deny the necessity of principles, and to prevent the exercise of the intellect...
...correspondent of Izvestia ("News"), the official government newspaper. Comrade Romm was far enough down the list of witnesses so that before he was called a group of leading news correspondents in Washington had opportunity to rush a cable to U. S. Ambassador Davies in Moscow. They asked him to tell the Soviet Supreme Court, that "In our dealings with Romm we found him a true friend and advocate of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Never once did he even faintly indicate lack of sympathy or disloyalty towards the existing Soviet Government."Prisoner Romm, when invited by Prosecutor Vishinsky...
Simplest way for John Doe to draw a will that will be admitted to probate is for him to call in two friends, tell them what he is doing, ask them to witness his signature to the following testament: "I give everything to my wife, Mary Doe, in the event of my death and appoint her my executrix." No such simple will was one which a Philadelphia lawyer named Solomon L. Fridenberg brought before Surrogate James A. Delehanty last week in Manhattan and asked him to interpret. Lawyer Fridenberg admitted he had drawn the seven-page closely-written document with...