Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emphasizing his tenet that wisdom is necessary in the leadership of the country, President Conant declared, "Wise men are most easily differentiated from fools in times of sudden emergency, and a study of history, I believe, makes for wisdom...
...Feeling of Security." In the course of further Rearmament debate in the House last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made unobtrusively perhaps the most important declaration from His Majesty's Government since the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933. A basic tenet of Nazi policy today is that, excluding Soviet Russia, the rest of Europe including Britain must unite in a Western Pact. This regional pact to guarantee peace only on Germany's frontiers in the West, leaving the Fatherland free to wage war in the East, has long been resisted by France with her doctrine...
...solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...
When President Roosevelt suggests in effect six new judges be appointed by him, he is disregarding a fundamental tenet of American democracy, the independence of the judiciary. The Court long been inviolate to both parties and unless it remains so the entire structure of the Federal Government will be altered. Last November the issue was not raised. President Roosevelt is willing to revert to the discredited methods of Republican Reconstructionists. No reading of history, no twisting of logic can support a policy of packing the Court, whatever the ends in view...
...office in the Mormon agencies which cement the Church's life: Sunday schools, relief societies, mutual improvement associations for young people, a primary association for moppets, a genealogical society. Important to the Church is the last, through which good Mormons may seek data on their ancestors. By Mormon tenet, one's unshriven forebears may be admitted to Mormonism retroactively and posthumously, baptized by proxy...