Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-four days before he signed the joint resolution lifting the arms embargo, President Roosevelt had stood before Congress and gravely begun: "I have asked the Congress to reassemble . . . in order that it may consider and act on the amendment of certain legislation which, in my best judgment, so alters the historic foreign policy of the United States that it impairs the peaceful relations of the United States with foreign nations." Last week the legislation was amended. And although Washington correspondents speculated on the political consequences, on the effects on business, shipping and foreign policy, the plainest reaction was calm...
These very qualities, however, are also responsible for the obtrusiveness of the burbles and crackles which sometimes come from the middle of the orchestra. Through we cannot be expected to enjoy sour notes, we certainly should try to modify the snap judgment that the unhappy musician who makes them belongs in a boiler factory...
...tolerated in such a high official position or whether the indignation of the world is stronger than the unscrupulousness of a notorious British liar. There is no doubt, Mr. Churchill, that you will be found guilty by any court of justice-now you are standing before the judgment chair of a world tribunal. The accused, Winston Churchill, now has the floor. . . . Stand, rascal, and answer...
...announced the day before yesterday that Macdonald would not be available for duty against Dartmouth, but it was not until yesterday that final judgment was pronounced on Hallett. The big Junior tackle received a leg bump in Wednesday's scrimmage which sidelined him, but he will play against Princeton...
Here again Mr. Conant's judgment must be criticized. Several of the ten who were fired showed extraordinary brilliance during their terms at Harvard. It is quite certain that better men will not turn up. It is even more certain that these assistant professors were not judged fairly, when it is considered that their departments were forced to recommend their dismissals--after the manner of the Walsh-Sweezy Case-- because there was no other possible expedient. All this is beside the point that they are leaving behind them gaping holes during the next four or five years, before...