Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with lack of concern touching the welfare of their city. New York has no political, let alone moral, leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city in the world are presided over as if these were a Coney Island Mardi Gras. . . . ! Such a city as New York deserves as mayor a Dwight Morrow...
...first place there can be little doubt that Lamont is acting sincerely; he believes that a wrong has been done and that it is his position to right it. Granting that a wrong has been done, it does not follow that the name of the University will be cleared by his act. Under these conditions the University administration which committed the injustice is the one to make amends. Lamont and his group would have done their duty by objecting to the policy of the administration and attempting by reasonable methods to get it changed. If they had wanted...
TORCH SONG?Mayo Methot as a Salvation Army lassie who goes wrong (TIME, Sept...
...DONE HER WRONG-Milt Gross- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Funnyman Gross can write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a "novel" in pictures, a takeoff on anything you like to mention: melodrama, cinema, picture-novels, the U. S., Virtue, Vice, comic strips...
...Note: "Time" in the 3rd paragraph refers to the wrong house. It should read "Dunster...