Word: meaninglessness
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...proposals to alter the Constitution are submitted by a two-thirds vote of Congress, or on application of two-thirds of the State Legislatures and are ratified by three-fourths of the State Legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the States. Turning thumbs down on referendums as meaningless and ineffectual, the majority plank continued...
...World (International Film Foundation) is an intelligent and heterogeneous compilation of newsreel shots on such matters as the War, Prohibition, U. S. Crime, Disarmament Conferences, Gandhi, Mussolini, Hoover. Hitler, the Japanese at Shanghai. Its grandiose title is meaningless and misleading. The picture is improved by its lack of a theme; the pleasure of watching it is analogous to that of reading the headlines of old newspapers. Good shots: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. looking out of his window; Mahatma Gandhi with one finger on his nose; Mrs. Charles H. Sabin denouncing Prohibition; Manhattan police riding their horses into a crowd...
...disposition to gloss over con troversial questions will bring forth a meaningless [platform] document, a colorless candidate and a weakened party. Expediency will do nothing for democracy. ... It would be better that the convention remain in session all summer and give to the people a vigorous, strong platform and candidates capable of fighting for it than to hurry away from Chicago with a half-baked proposal...
...presented to the typical educated Egyptian of the Empire Period (1600-1200 B.C.). Mark (1) if he would have agreed with the proposition; (2) if he would have disagreed; (3) if he would have debated the proposition without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing; (4) if he would have found it meaningless: Murder of a freeman is wrong; the earth moves around the sun; all property holders must pay taxes to the government; naturalism is a possible objective in sculpture; comedy is a superior form of drama to tragedy...
...economic factor would influence the voters' choice of party but not of candidate and declared that issues were bound to be powerful elements in the selecting of the president for the next four years in contrast to 1928 when they were diverted and buried under a mass of meaningless platitudes...