Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a Westerner long overdue for appointment to the Court, Washington wise money was on three dark horses: Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington; Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Texas); Dean Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. of University of Iowa College of Law, whose appointment would tickle three States, since he was born in Kentucky and summers in Colorado...
...justify its decision to play a passive role in the struggle for repeal this year is undoubtedly true. For there is some question as to whether this oath does really endanger civil liberties. And, even if the law is a menace to intellectual freedom, it may not be wise for Harvard to stir once more local antagonism by advocating its repeal...
...dishonorable discharge, meaning principally that an offender loses his accrued cash allowances. In the main, discipline is a matter of persuasion and good administrative sense on a C. O.'s part-good training for officers used to rule the easy way by command alone. Aside from a wise C. O., best bolster to CCC morale is promotion: a company of 200 may include twelve group leaders, 18 assistants from the ranks. Topnotchers may win salaried jobs as assistant technicians...
...politically wise crowd needed no coaching to guess that prominent among "others of our enemies" was the Republic of France. They cried "Tunisia!" "Corsica!" and "Down with France!" and from one end of the square came the optimistic shout: "On to Paris!" An official order bade Italians put away their flags until Madrid falls...
...Motto: Defense." Clearly Mr. Chamberlain had swapped the unpopular nag of appeasement for the glossy war-horse of rearmament, a wise move in view of the fact that 1939 is almost certainly a General Election year...