Word: meaninglessness
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...view of the contributors to the new Chapel in that they desire a memorial to the men who gave their lives for a cause, one that our country believed to be just, and fought for in that faith. Obviously a memorial to men who died for a cause is meaningless for that purpose if it includes those who died for a different or contrary cause. The same question has risen about Memorial Hall, dedicated to Harvard men who died for the Union. Confederate soldiers were no less heroic and conselentious but they fought for a different cause...
...known that at this meeting the management would ask for approval of a resolution upholding the much-argued Bethlehem bonus plan, that a minority interest might protest, ask pertinent questions. Yet that very morning Vice-Chancellor John H. Backes had signed an order which made much of the meeting meaningless. He ruled that while the stockholders might vote, the result of the vote might not be written into the corporate records. Approval of the majority, he said, "cannot force a complaining minority into suppression of their rights nor find in it immunity." In the Law's redundant language...
...Schwab last week had the satisfaction of knowing that the meeting was a personal victory for him. When questions were hurled at him he shot answers back. When the end of the meeting drew near he delivered himself of an emotional speech which brought cheers from the shareholders. And meaningless as the vote may turn out to be, it was indicated that the management won the proxy battle by an overwhelming majority...
Because the Primate of Belgium, Cardinal van Roey, counseled Catholics not to attend the "meaningless" funerals of cremated persons (TIME, March 2) and protested against government participation at the funeral of Hero Lieut.-General Bernheim (cremated by his express wish), Belgian Socialist Deputies fought last week a short, victorious battle in the Chamber with Belgian Catholics...
...That funeral honors should be paid to a cremated corpse is a defiance of Catholic conscience which objects to cremation. . . . Any funeral is meaningless after destruction of the body by burning...