Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarked that "some good reactionaries are needed to settle such all-important questions as censorship, and the freedom of the press." When asked after the meeting to define "conservatives and radicals," he admitted that the average conservative is a man just too lazy to act; he is willing to stand pat, and let things slide as they are. A genuine conservative, however, is a man willing to tinker ahead slowly, experimenting as he goes along, trying to get a working principle, but ever advancing. The radical, on the other hand, is one who works as soon as he thinks...
...defense reeked with sentimentality and patriotism. Lawyer Hogan made the women of the jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked...
...Eight years ago she gave up tragic, wearing parts, but later rallied to play Ibsen's Ghosts. She wears no real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that we may be fed. . . . The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...
...Social Hall. Lately Mr. Epstein combined his hobby and his philanthropy. Last fortnight the University of Chicago announced receipt from him of $1,000,000 for an art center where esthetic history and theory will be studied and taught, pundits will lecture, exhibitions will be held. The building will stand near the University's resplendent new chapel, upon the plans for which a great U. S. artist-the late Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue-was working at the time of his death (TIME, April...
Other Business. The committee on Jurisprudence took a firm stand against further limitations on the powers of the Federal courts; also advocated legislation providing for declaratory judgments. Advocated were the 13-month calendar year and a change in the U. S. President's inauguration date from March 4 to sometime in January. Condemned were the appointment of receivers in bankruptcy by Federal judges through, friendship or patronage, and any action which would reduce the exclusive rights of the patentee to his invention...