Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wise policy of non-participation in post-season or intersectional championship games was reasserted by the Board of Control of the Princeton Athletic Association when it announced yesterday, in regard to its attitude toward a possible invitation for Princeton to represent the East in the Rose Bowl football game, that the agreement with Yale, made in 1923 and renewed in 1927, will continue to apply...
Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around...
...reason they must be dealt with cautiously in most administrative matters, and especially in those which are sumptuary. But they are by now so thoroughly disgusted with the immediate effects of prohibition, and so willing to eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should prohibit the sale of liquor of any kind outside of federal dispensaries and restaurants. In the beginning...
...Henry Morgenthau Jr. not only Undersecretary but at the same time acting Secretary of the Treasury, his act was but a visible sign of a change in invisible policy that had been steadily taking place, a change to a policy abhorrent to the "hard money" group. It was like- wise a sign that the teachings of Mr. Roosevelt's old instructor Dr. Sprague had been definitely superseded by those of Mr. Morgenthau's old instructor, Dr. Warren...
...President's policy was voted down with a roar of Nays. When Earl Harding, representing the inflationist Committee for the Nation, asserted that the resolution would antagonize "perhaps 75% of the population of the nation" the chambermen laughed. Mr. Loree, president of Delaware & Hudson R. R., old wise man of the sea of practical economics, took a $100 bill out of his pocket and held it up: "It says on the face of it that it is redeemable in gold on demand at the United States Treasury. Now it is a mere scrap of paper. We have violated that...