Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S EDITORIAL STAFF HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON BOTH THE VISION THAT PROMPTED AND THE COURAGE TO PRINT CHARLOT'S BEAUTIFUL NATIVITY SCENE [TIME DEC. 26]. MAY THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD HELP US TO DISPEL THE CLOUDS OF HATRED, THAT PEACE AND GOOD MAY REIGN ON EARTH...
Yesterday, however, as one Harvard man to another, the President named Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court of the United States, and this nomination is an example of vision as sound and enlightened as Black's was ill-considered and petty. For most of his twenty-five years at the Law School Frankfurter has symbolized to Boston's State Street interests a dangerous and bombthrowing form of liberalism, a reputation which he gained from his participation in the Tom Mooney commission and the Sacco-Vanzetti trails. In 1932 these interests heaved a sigh of relief when he refused his appointment...
...appointed a man of integrity, ability, and tolerance to the highest legal position in the land. The charge that Frankfurter is too guided by emotion in questions of labor may be well founded, but few will deny that Harvard's professor far outshone his rivals in legal experience and vision. Perhaps Frankfurter himself hammered home the nail when he said in his book with Dean Landis on the Supreme Court, "The powers and spirit thus demanded of the bar, the universities alone can cultivate...
...complexity of this day there was a challenge, in its very danger there was a thrill of reality, and in the vision it offered there lay the reward. For all these the Vagabond was grateful. And he was grateful for Harvard, too, because it fitted in and was fitting him . . . Perhaps he would have the chance someday to trace the steps of some pioneer, doing the job quietly, methodically, the way they taught him at Harvard, Perhaps someday he would even have some hens. Even more than for the present, Vag was grateful for the future...
...promoter of an "industrial South." Day after death cut short his campaign at 39-December 23, 1889-a boy was born to the poor but genteel Weaver family in Eatonton, Ga. Like many another Southern family, they named their child Henry Grady. Today Promoter Henry Woodfin Grady's vision of an industrial South is finally approaching reality and Henry Grady Weaver is chief promoter of a new industrial concept. He is head of the Customer Research Staff of General Motors Corp...