Word: unsoundness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much that is irrational and unsound has been used in the fight against the Byrnes bill. The cry of "dictator" is ridiculous; as a matter of fact, the proposed extension of the Civil Service will lessen the President's power by taking the weapon of patronage from him. The division of the pre-audit and the post-audit functions which caused so much opposition will place the control of expenditure in the hands of Congress where it rightfully belongs--and where it theoretically resides today. To call the bill "a dagger in the heart of democracy" ignores the fact that...
...thrilling dramatic contrast. They are delivered to a modern British audience in hackneyed modern idiom, with no trace of poetry. One speaker dwells upon their disinterestdness; another, on the constitutional necessity of subordinating Church to State; and a third, the theory that Becket virtually committed suicide while in unsound mind. They are meant to sound superficial, but none of them speaks nonsense, and hence the enigmatical complexity of the play is increased...
...year ago Mrs. Lucius William Nieman died, leaving Harvard University most of the fortune her husband mined from the Milwaukee Journal. With her bequest Harvard was "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism." Three distant relatives shortly declared that the 75-year-old lady was mentally unsound when she drew her testament four days before she died. They brought her nurse to court to testify that some nights Mrs. Nieman "would drink half a bottle (of gin), some nights a full bottle. . . ." No one could guess why Mrs. Nieman wanted Harvard to have her money, reputedly...
...accuse the Student Union and its President, Robert Lane, of unsound judgement in urging a program of participation in political and social movements in the college and the community. Without pretending to give a full exposition of the aims of the Student Union, I should like to make just three points...
...affiliate of the C. I. O., declared that the solution to the present business recession was to increase the purchasing power of the workers. Business, of course, made it plain that New Deal mistakes were to blame for the slump, emphasizing the lack of confidence which unsound policies have induced. In rather guarded statements economists asserted that only increased employment will cause industry to pick up, and more employment cannot be had without a better balance between price and demand...