Word: overtion
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Defense tactics were to deny none of the overt acts charged, to let Septuagenarian Insull take full responsibility. BUT the defense was also out to show that the acts were honest, if mistaken; to build up a mass of extenuating circumstances to take the curse off any purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment...
...violent minority must by this time have become heartily sick of this goal post business. Excusable some eight years ago as the overt expression of collegiate rejoicing at a long awaited victory over a traditionally triumphant Harvard, the assault has at long sad last become a trite ritual. Last week the H.A.A. News dismissed the destruction of the posts as a manifestation of that old demon rum, and pointed with pride to the fact that very few of either student body engaged in the fray...
Since the Sun did not specifically "apologize," TIME was obliged to judge what part of the Sun's statement sounded most like an overt expression of regret. TIME was tripped by the complications of an involved controversy, hopes it is ended...
What all were waiting for was the first overt move on the part of Germany. A Nazi Austria openly ruled from Berlin means more than the addition of 7,000,000 souls to the German Reich. It means that: 1) French-supported Czechoslovakia would be surrounded by Nazi land on three sides; 2) Germany would come down to the Brenner Pass and be only 100 miles from the Adriatic; 3) German minorities in Jugoslavia's Slovenia and Croatia would receive all the backing that Austrian Nazis have had; 4) Hungary and Rumania would be the next objects of Nazi...
...skies last week reported no comet or other celestial portent. In Manhattan no showers of ticker-tape blossomed from Broadway office windows, no welcoming committee packed the steps of City Hall. No call to nation-wide thanksgiving was sounded by Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler. No overt celebration marked the day with red. Yet many a wide-awake modern-minded citizen knew he had seen literary history pass another milestone. For last week a much-enduring traveler, world-famed but long an outcast, landed safe and sound on U. S. shores. His name was Ulysses...