Word: meaninglessness
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...this unless you have lived in some country working on fascistic, communistic, or socialistic basis, it is a great heritage. Unless men of broad and understanding vision scan our economic, political, and social structure today, searching for the answers to our problems, we will find ourselves in a meaningless sea of confusion...
Monday's radio talk cannot be regarded as anything more than a few meaningless caresses to quiet the bawling baby. These financial issues must be settled once and for all before any steps toward recovery can be permanent ones, and once again the Secretary of the Treasury has proven disappointing in showing the government's unwillingness to adopt a definite plan of action...
...awarding the Stanley Cup each season to the best team, officials of the National Hockey League hold not one but five series of post-season games, from which only the three feeblest of the nine teams in the league are omitted. To the argument that this arrangement renders meaningless all the games prior to the playoffs, league officials have a practical reply: it prolongs the season for three weeks, pleases enthusiasts who like to watch hockey games whether they mean anything or not. Results of the play-offs that started last week confirmed their reasoning. Watched by capacity crowds...
...President and his policies, "He is politically clever, but the inevitable results will be disastrous." With unflagging zeal Mr. Hearst berated Mr. Strachey with the two most condemnatory words in his vocabulary--Communist and unAmerican. Probably the latter adjective should be forever eliminated from the language as totally meaningless. But if anything is typically American, it is freedom of speech. This Mr. Strachey has been denied. Certainly it is not necessary to agree with the author of "The Coming Struggle for Power," but just as certainly all who wish to hear him should be allowed the privilege...
Thus for the first time since he left the White House did Herbert Hoover become politically vocal on a specific national question. Heretofore he had written magazine articles and delivered speeches but his ideas were always muffled in a fog of meaningless political platitudes. Now as he was traveling home to California from his first New York Life Insurance directors' meeting, the Supreme Court rendered its decision on the gold cases (TIME, Feb. 25). For two days newshawks had trailed him, begging in vain for some comment. Sternly he put them aside with: "I am no longer in public...