Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Irish Senators debated whether to put colleens below the age of consent into "distinctive dresses", Scotch solons of Glasgow's Diocesan Council were apprised of "terrible moral conditions in Scotland" by their rapporteur on vital statistics, Major A. R. Haverfield...
That the Liberal Club is seriously considering preparing a petition to send to Washington advocating legislation on vital topics of the day indicates its members are in danger of losing their sense of humor. It is all very well to discuss momentous problems in an open forum, and the practice of having prominent men speak words of wisdom on the world and its problems is commendable; but the idea of a group of semi-intellectual college students taking themselves seriously enough to think they are capable of doing Congress's work is preposterous...
Foreign policy, money, banking, public finance, commerce and regulation of industry, social security and labor, government personnel--these are the subjects to be covered in the Liberal Clubs petition to Congress. Granted the questions are vital, granted the excellence of the interest shown by college students, granted the high-mindedness that inspires their action, granted the need for experience in the practical side of political theory and governmental workings--but what, in the name of all that is muddle-headed, what business has the Harvard Liberal Club interfering in Congressional legislation? Isn't it muddled enough...
Emphasizing the vital personal character of religion, one of the speaking teams of the Oxford Group movement addressed a large crowd at the Continental Hotel yesterday evening. Another meeting was also held Tuesday evening, and was attended by more than a thousand Cantabridgians...
When public clamor on some vital issue becomes too loud for White House comfort, a favorite Presidential trick is to appoint a batch of Big Names to a special commission to investigate the matter. By the time the commission gets around to making a report, the public has usually cooled off, forgotten what the outcry was all about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation...