Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Government is running into the red at the rate of $5.5 billion a year. Too many houses are being built on too slim security, said he, and the new corporation pension plans, which he flatly called "a big mistake," will keep prices high. He thought that the time had come for FRB to tighten up on credit and thus discourage inflationary borrowing...
...that Taylor, doing business as Manhattan's Package Advertising Co., had created a monopoly in unpatented waxed-paper wrappers by licensing others, setting prices and dividing territories. Through it, said FTC, Taylor had collected $1,300,000 in royalties from 1931 to 1945 from some 30 manufacturers who thought that he held essential patents...
Freedom of speech and press, and a fortiori, of thought and opinion, are guaranteed to all Americans by the First Amendment. The only limitation placed upon this freedom is the "clear and present danger" doctrine first enunciated by Justice Holmes in Shenck v. U. S., 249 Us 47 (1919). It is important to note that this doctrine applies when freedom of speech is abused to the point of a person screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre when he knows that no danger of fire exists. It is quite a different matter to apply this limiting doctrine to the realm...
...Civil Service Commission, in issuing its first rule in 1884, recognized the right of every government employee to freedom of thought by stating, "no question . . . shall be framed as to elicit information concerning the political or religious opinions of any applicant...
...loyalty oaths, to muzzle the growth and exchange of free opinion, what is needed is an understanding that those who foster and use undemocratic instruments such as loyalty oaths also foster an undemocratic society. Unless the use of such oaths and other similar practices are discontinued, freedom of thought and expression will be completely effacted, and Navy-sponsored snoopers and back fence peeping-toms will not be limited to the Harvard campus. Irwin Gostin...