Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did the public affirm its recognition of a line performance, its sympathy for Mary Astor's position in her recent suit to get custody of her daughter (TIME, Aug. 17 & 24). Meanwhile Fate had brought Mary Astor the greatest picture, the most human and sympathy-winning role of her life just when she needed it most. Dodsworth, a forthright investigation of a universal problem, tells the story of a man battling to save his marriage from his wife's desire to keep young by cutting amorous capers. Sam sold his Revelation Motor Co. because Fran (Ruth Chatterton...
...oath of allegiance to the Constitution now exacted from teachers in 23 States and the District of Columbia. Since no other U. S. professional class is thus singled out to affirm its patriotism, teachers have keenly resented their oath as a special indignity. Warmly cheered was National Director Thomas Warrington Gosling of the American Junior Red Cross when he cried: "Compulsory oaths of allegiance are flagrant examples of dictatorship...
...Duff-Cooper went on to arraign, without actually mentioning names, almost everything for which Germany, the Nazis and Adolf Hitler stand as "detestable ideals." Cried he: "I affirm that not only our frontiers but also our ideals are in mortal danger. It is therefore on the two great democracies of the western world- Britain and France-that there now rests the terrible responsibility of saving not only our persons but the civilization we have created...
Against these two views, the one crudely destructive, the other subtly destructive, of the advancement of learning, the celebrations this year will affirm the principle that if the universities are to do their work they must be independent and they must be disinterested...
...University to take stock of the situation. The roots of the spoils system are strong and firm. In these days of Curley and Roosevelt, the wilderness has won back much of the hard-fought ground gained by the first hardy pioneers, as recent reports of Civil Service League amply affirm. There are even some supposedly sane-minded observers who believe that the wilderness should be preserved for its original denizens, unscrupulous politicians, in order, we hear, to preserve the party system...