Word: unsoundness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo the younger, more fanatic school of Japanese militarists fumed last week that their Empire ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat...
Does the NLRA abridge AP's Constitutional guarantee of freedom? "We hold that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position...
...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...