Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Roosevelt received charges filed against Mayor James John Walker by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rev. John Haynes Holmes of the City Affairs Committee. The Governor threatened, as chief magistrate of the state, to jail newshawks for contempt if they continued to pester him for a premature decision. With but one allusion to the playboy Mayor's "careless standards of public life," the City Affairs Committee complained that New York's chief executive had been remiss in administering the Departments of Standards & Appeals, Licenses. Health, Hospital, Budget, Docks, in all of which have been scandals or near...
...passed through the period of depression (Winter), gives signs to the initiated of the dawn of a new era (Spring), with its many opportunities to the alert and thoughtful to participate in the coming Bull Market- the creator of new Millionaires, as in the past; so by prompt and wise action, NOW, in the springtime of this Market, will satisfactory results be obtained...
...certain that the youth who have high abilities will be discovered and put in the way of taking advantage of the highest training that the State can give. Emerson went so far as to make this a supreme function of the State when he said that "to make the wise man, the State exists...
...remove the Mayor of New York City. Many another prominent body joined in demanding a thoroughgoing municipal cleanup: The Citizens Union under Henry Morgenthau, onetime Ambassador to Turkey; the Public Affairs Committee under Socialist Norman Thomas; the City Affairs Committee under Rev. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. The Greater New York Federation of Churches next threw its weight into the movement, and then the New York Board of Trade. The latter appointed a Vigilantes Committee of 20, announced that it had been spying on City Hall for the past year. The Roman Catholic Church remained silent...
...these passing fancies, finding himself cast off, seeks to recapture the happiness he found in Millie through her sixteen-year old daughter. After repeated admonitions of "hands off" Millie is forced to shoot him. The last minute testimony of the daughter saves Millie from the law, and a world-wise mother and her rapidly learning daughter are joyfully reunited...