Word: unjustness
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Franklin Roosevelt, master of words, is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
History. In 1919, the "secrecy" of their framing was the charge with which Senators Philander Knox and Henry Cabot Lodge I started the depopularizing of Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations Covenant before they reached the Senate. No charge could have been more unjust or illegal.* Yet this week, as the Senate geared itself for high-powered, full-dress debate on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, "secrecy" faced Franklin Roosevelt as a charge and an issue likely to impede his National Defense program and other important legislation. No such giants of debate as Woodrow...
...abrupt and vigorous purge, it may well be guessed that he received this--or equivalent aid. If so, the Munich Pact may merely have marked another surrender to expediency, no more serious than its parallels in 1931 and 1935. The transfer of the Sudeten Germans was not intrinsically unjust, and if the surrender of 1938 has stimulated at long last a will on the part of the democracies to resist further Fascist aggrandizement, then history will not endorse the gloomy report which pessimists today are so generally proclaiming...
...native of Holland and an admirer of the British people, the fairest and most courageous in the world today-they do not hide behind Neutrality Laws like your terrified country does-I would take this opportunity to tell you that your statement is scurrilous and unjust...
Through the story which Spenlove tells to socialite Mrs. Colwell, Author McFee portrays the stanch stuff of the British aristocrat, one Captain Remson, who suffered many cruel misfortunes after his unjust dismissal as a young officer from a crack British steamship line. The worst of these was his marriage to a beautiful U. S. heiress, a friend of the woman to whom Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where...