Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farinacci's contribution was specially significant, for this "Overlord of the North" has long been entrusted to speak II Duce's mind. It was he who laid down the minimum terms for solving the Ethopian dispute, terms which led to the still born Hoare-Laval scheme (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935). It was he who last year reviled British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley for knuckling under to the police. It was he who roared loudest against the Coronation of King George and said of those Italians who wanted to go to London to see it: "We shall do everything...
...Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed in a neighboring home confirmed Mr. Norton's story that an armed prowler had fled in an automobile. ''There is no question in, my mind," cried old Mr. Norton. "I know Tom Elder as well as I know a member of my own family...
...been to sit ruminating while the committee's lawyers ran the Van Sweringen show. But a time has come in almost each day's testimony when Senator Truman has felt impelled to bring his palms down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week he added: "Holding companies are as great an evil in the railroad field as they are in the field of public utilities...
...cites Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Grant. Congress once packed it too, when it voted to limit the Court's membership to seven rather than let President Johnson fill the two vacancies. "That all Presidents 'pack' the Court by placing in it men sympathetic with their states of mind, the record shows." But Mr. Hendrick believes that in the long run the Supreme Court, no matter whether it is regarded as a packed trunk or a Pandora's box, reflects the changing voice, the unchanged spirit of the Constitution: "It is now a commonplace that the dissenting opinions...
...doctors and reformers who pioneered U. S. psychiatry, Benjamin Rush showed the greatest ingenuity, Dorothea Dix (credited with founding or improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried...