Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Geiger thought that Robert Jackson had been using the criminal prosecution only as a threat to force the Big Three to cut the umbilical cord binding them to the "Big Four. Mr. Jackson and his boss, Homer Cummings, thought Judge Geiger was "arbitrary, unjust and unfair...
...still an immediate possibility. The companies (General Motors and G. M. A. C. excepted) continued to negotiate with the Attorney General's office for a consent decree. But the final draft proposed last fortnight by the companies' lawyers had so many complicated provisions that the jittery independents thought it was designed to give them even less business than usual. Negotiations broke off. Thurman Arnold had the criminal case reopened before a grand jury in Judge Thomas W. Slick's court at South Bend...
...promiscuous until she bore an illegitimate son, became a streetwalker after he died. Most interesting but cloudiest part of To beg I am ashamed tells of her brief marriage, which took her to Malaya, where her husband worked for a rubber company. Since he knew of her past, she thought the marriage was hopeless from the start, nevertheless made a desperate effort to become respectable, was frustrated by her former clients, her mother's malicious disclosures, her husband's sullenness and doubt, her own inertia...
...that if they could surpass its life-loaded repose they would touch the summit of their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian art and Egyptian writings, a little more dust is shined off the dynasties...
More undergraduates have contributed, but the size of their gifts is smaller. "There has been no organized solicitation from students, since the committee thought that voluntary gifts were more in the spirit of such a charitable drive; no money was raised in the Medical School since they carried on an independent campaign a few months...