Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court last year, Hugo LaFayette Black has been its most spectacular dissenter. In his total of 13 dissents he has entered nine solitary dissents to four for Justice McReynolds, one each for Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed the liberal tone of Justice Black's dissenting opinions, particularly one in which he contradicted the Court's 50-year-old interpretation of the 14th Amendment as applying to corporations.* Last month, however, a Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year on the Court...
...seems ridiculous to a person who has any remote interest in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. It is a strange thing that seemingly intelligent people consider the Classics as "a dull joke" or "definitely exotic" or commit the old fallacy of expressing the term "dead languages" in a tone of contempt. To postulate as a self evident truth the fact that there is nothing of importance in the doings of man before 1900, is to exhibit a downright ignorance of the past and foolishly sublime confidence in the present. The test of and education lies in the degree...
...turn a given amount of Cicero into English and thus distinguish themselves by the degree of Artium Baccalaurcus from their unlearned brethren of the S.B. The pursuit of the Classics as a four-year course of study is definitely exotic and the expression "dead languages," uttered in a tone of contempt, illustrates the depths to which this subject has sunk...
...Good Faith." Noteworthy in all the President's recent discourses to or about business since he recognized Depression* last month has been a gentle and conciliatory tone. Last week's message was no exception...
...Anxiously awaited by Business ever since, the business monopoly message from the nation's greatest governmental monopolist finally appeared last week. A detailed request for Congressional investigation of the whole subject of monopoly as a preliminary to future legislation to curtail it, it was chiefly noteworthy for a tone as mild as Messrs. Ickes & Jackson had been bitter...