Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance, its handling of strikes and championship of Labor. He approves of public works, regulation of public utilities (including government "yardsticks"), easy farm and home credit and a more equitable distribution of the nation's wealth. Strong for social security, he considers the New Deal's system unjust and impracticable, dislikes its "spendthrift generosity," its currency policies. But the only things which really make him boil are: 1) "must" bills, jammed through without adequate debate by Congress or the nation; 2) waste and politics in relief; 3) the spoils system as practiced by James A. Farley...
That you make much of Jeanette MacDonald's acting with her teeth is unjust. . . . What strikes me as peculiarly outstanding is that you have failed to remark on Miss MacDonald's acting with her eyes. That love scene in Blackie Norton's office is one of the most genuine I have ever seen on the screen...
...hopefully staged their Revolution, they were promised for adoption, at a date not yet announced, a new Constitution to defend their personal rights and interests. According to All Union Chief Prosecutor Vishinsky a special object of the new Constitution will be "to provide maximum precautions against unwarranted indictments and unjust convictions" and to protect the individual "even against wrongful prosecution by the State...
Such retaliatory measures are not only consummately unconstitutional and unjust but are above all else cowardly. They strike at those unable to defend themselves either with money or with popular and sympathetic support. If anyone doubts the truth of this let him ask himself whether the House of Representatives of Georgia has ordered Erskine Caldwell examined by a psychiatrist. Certainly the author of the famous "Tobacco Road" handed Georgia no orchids' in that brilliant yet searing expose. Though Caldwell and Peter Moody represent two totally different planes of achievement and position they nevertheless are doing the same thing:--telling...
Unquestionably the modest simplicity of "Poil de Carotte" may be counted among its distinguishing merits. Yet at the same time none of the characters is lacking in depth. The plot concerns itself with the tragic childhood of a young boy subjected to the inexorable tyranny of an unjust mother. Buffeted by the harsh tribulations of unhappy domestic life, he becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of despair which barely escapes culmination in a terrible fate. It is not until his psychological problem is fully understood by his father, a victim of unhappy matrimony, that he finds solace in the maxim that...