Word: unwisdom
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When the New Deal arrived in March, 1933, the Farm Board was severely denounced for its unwisdom. Mr. Morgenthau, our present Secretary of the Treasury, as Farm Commissioner, took over the old Farm Board. He said that the thing for the farmers to do was always to market their old crop before growing...
...Lawyer Samuel Untermyer said that two reform organizations had asked him to represent them against it in court. To Mayor LaGuardia went protests from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, The Bronx Clergy Association and Liberal Episcopalian Dr. Walter Russell Bowie who wired: "It would be depth of unwisdom to give civic encouragement to that passion for gambling which can be so sinister in its personal and social consequences." The New York Presbytery called it "subversive to the morals of our people." The Greater New York Federation of Churches condemned it as "a measure which would carry incalculable moral...
Because Emperor Hirohito saw from the first the basic unwisdom of Japan's Shanghai adventure, Crown Prince Chi-chibu (a daring skier and steady-nerved huntsman) is 'not and never has been with his regiment at Shanghai. The chief sacrifice which Crown Prince Chichibu is called upon to make derives from the fact that his brother, Emperor Hirohito, has no manchild. Until the Sublime Emperor has a son (he has had four daughters) Japanese etiquet demands that Crown Prince Chichibu have no child whatsoever. Four years ago he married merry Setsuko Matsudaira who was schooled in Washington...
...freely admit that the Jewish race has shown conspicuous political unwisdom since the War. Prominent British Jews have brought great unpopularity upon their community by clamorous persistence in pressing for maintenance, at the expense of the hard-driven taxpayers, of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, which no Jew above the charity line wants...
...Commission is unanimous that the wisdom or unwisdom of the 18th Amendment is not involved in their work. . . . The function of the Commission is to devise the best means possible for its enforcement. ... All seem to view the industrial alcohol situation as the most difficult one to solve. . . . The Prohibition phase of the Commission's work can be done within three or four months . . . completed by July 1 at the latest. . . . Expert studies may be desirable . . . but these investigations should not be too prolonged or detailed...