Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann's yeast. Though not corrupt she was found "judicially unfit" to occupy the bench on which she had so proudly sat for twelve happy years...
...would have to cease television experimentation if the Commission ruled against it. Summing up for RCA, Louis Titus, chief attorney, declared an "unspeakable disaster" would follow the Commission's refusal to renew RCA licenses. His prime legal argument was that Congress meant to put off the air as unfit only those who criminally violated the Sherman Act, not those who merely broke the civil provisions of the Clayton...
...grown-up: "Would you care to stay in one place for a week or more without some change of surroundings?" The answer would almost invariably be the negative. No one cares to stay permanently fixed. When water stands in one place for a while, it becomes stagnant and unfit. Just 30 with the human mind...
...Nicholson. She flayed all Wet Democratic presidential possibilities, warned everyone within earshot that her women would bolt their party as they did in 1928 if a Dry were not nominated. Of New York's Governor Roosevelt she said: "This candidate, while mentally qualified for the presidency, is utterly unfit physically.* He has failed to show the kind of leadership we want in our President by his vacillation and dilatory tactics. . . . Let us not be trapped or betrayed by any such high-sounding phrases as States' rights. Let us ask 'Is it States' rights or States' wrongs...
Born. To Emperor Hirohito & Empress Nagako of Japan; a daughter, their fourth (one died), legally unfit to inherit Emperor Hirohito's throne. Weight: 3,365 grams (7.4 lb.). Length: 49 centimetres...