Word: unsounded
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...would have been shocked and protested from the housetops if President Harding, President Coolidge or President Hoover had even intimated that they wanted to increase the Supreme Court so as to make it subservient to their wishes. The progressives would have said, and rightly so, that it was fundamentally unsound, morally wrong and an attempt to set up a dictatorship in this country...
...drive home: whether or not-all other opposition having been crushed-the Supreme Court was still to stand in the way of the New Deal. To approach it, he turned to the question of NRA: "Overproduction, underproduction and speculation are three evil sisters who distill the troubles of unsound inflation and disastrous deflation. . . . Sober second thought confirms most of us in the belief that the broad objectives of the National Recovery Act were sound. We know now that its difficulties arose from the fact that it tried to do too much. For example, it was unwise to expect the same...
...that the sections dealing with the abolition of the Comptroller-General's office would arouse the most opposition. It was not felt, however, that the President recommended the abolition of the office because of the check imposed upon the Chief Executive, but rather because the office was considered administratively unsound...
...brothers in arithmetic, they proceeded to take apart the New Deal's fiscal bookkeeping, subject its parts to scrutiny and discard them, one after another, as unsound, inaccurate, misleading...
...money to pay off the debt. It is in fact treating the repay ments as income and spending them. "If the subtraction of recoverable assets from the gross debt is valid," wrote Editor Moley, "then the Treasury's handling of these receipts is, to use a charitable word, unsound. . . . Democratic orators should refrain from leading their listeners to believe that $8,000,000,000 is the total in crease in the national debt...