Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dispatches from the West, claim that two uncles and an aunt have filed objections charging that Mrs. Nieman was subject to undue influence and was of unsound mind when she willed the bulk of her $8,000,000 estate to Harvard...
...Unlicensed Printing, caught Queen Anne levying the first taxes against newspapers, discovered that the American Revolution "really began in 1765" when the first batch of newspaper duty stamps was shipped out to the Colonies from England, deduced that the Louisiana tax law was not only unconstitutional but historically unsound. Last autumn three U. S. District Court judges sitting at Baton Rouge found for the publishers on the discrimination plea presented by Lawyer Esmond Phelps, a New Orleans Times-Picayune director, passed over Lawyer Deutsch's libertarian thesis. When Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington...
...Sledding. Before the Games started, major bob-sled controversies concerned: 1) the poor condition of the run, which U. S. Driver Hubert Stevens described as "unsound" and 2) the bad effect on it of U. S. runners, which are sharper than those of European bobsleds. Most romantic casualty of the week was Donna Fox, a Bronx undertaker who, after sustaining a bruised ear when his sled tipped over on a curve, ungraciously blamed the accident on the poor construction of the run. Fastest practice runs of the week were made by Hubert Stevens, who won the two-man event...
...nation will survive to correct its political mistakes. But if an unsound financial program is coupled with them, the nation faces destruction...
Harold W. Danser '37, the first Harvard speaker, undertook to prove that the financial policies of the New Deal are unsound. Following him, Ellwood M. Rabenold '37 discussed the A.A.A., the N.R.A., and the vacillating nature of Roosevelt's policies...