Word: condemning
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...Secretary of Labor has only acted in accordance with the fundamental principles of justice. He is to be congratulated on his distinction between mere words and actual plots of violence. Only the latter furnish ground for punishment. To condemn on suspicion alone is contrary to the elements of free institutions...
...succeed Robert Lansing, has astonished the political circles in Washington. That a man with practically no experience in statecraft should be suddenly snatched out of comparative obscurity and placed in the important and difficult position of Secretary of State is almost inconceivable. But officials are afraid to openly condemn this choice, for the Constitution empowers the President to appoint whom he will, subject to the approval of the Senate...
...charges that is none the less appalling because it is so familiar. For years we have heard the plea for a national budget, for the introduction of business methods in the executive departments, for fair treatment of government employees. All we have done about it is to criticize and condemn...
...good fortune to serve overseas, are not in a position to know the "inside facts" regarding the unfair discrimination alleged to have taken place in the choice of officers for the command of the Twenty-sixth or any other division of the United States Army, but they unqualifiedly condemn those who endeavor to make of such alleged discrimination a personal or political issue. The war was fought for the defeat of Germany and not for the making of military reputations...
...States are of two distinct classes. Besides the man who wants to introduce an entirely new system of government, there is His Honor, the Average Citizen who while sitting vigorously on the exponents of revolution, will tear Congress to pieces as one of his great diversions; will proceed to condemn government attempts at business, and then finish off with a few choice words on the speed of Supreme Court deliberations. The justice of these criticisms is of course doubtful. There will always be grounds for just criticism as long as politicians run the government alone...