Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before a Senate subcommittee which last week considered the President's nomination of Judge Clark to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (Philadelphia) appeared Democrat George S. Silzer, onetime Governor of New Jersey. No friend of Judge Clark, Mr. Silzer called him "unjudicious," "unfit to hold office," also "a smart damn fool." The committee approved, the Senate confirmed the appointment...
...Passed the Harlan Bill providing that Government horses and mules which have become unfit for service may, instead of being sold, be destroyed or pensioned out to pasture; sent it to the White House...
...huge, grinning, wise-cracking native of Pittsburgh, Hervey Allen made two tentative starts in life. He was at Annapolis before overindulgence in athletics made him unfit for the sea. Graduating from Pittsburgh with honors in 1915, he went to work for a telephone company. He entered the Big Conflict as soon as there was Maxican border trouble...
...handed in a favorable report on the nomination of Mr. Jackson to the post of U. S. Solicitor General. Not in the least perturbed by the committee's minority view, that the characteristically Rooseveltian opinions Mr. Jackson has expressed in recent speeches and in Committee hearings made him unfit for the job, the Senate heard Nebraska's Norris say that he wished Mr. Jackson were being nominated for even higher office, shortly confirmed...
...always with us, and nobody has been able to demonstrate a way of succeeding in polities without some organized backing. Another discouraging factor is the illusion in the public mind that college presidents are dreamy, pensive fellows who have rusticated behind cloistered walls all their lives and hence are unfit to hold the reins of government. Mr. Wells himself seems to consider this idea in speaking of President Wilson, despite the fact that the ex-President of Princeton did manage to bring about a number of domestic reforms and put across a victory in France, albeit his Paris performance brought...