Word: reinterpretation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio without hearing a giveaway scheme. It's really quite a nerve-racking business . . ." The major networks were cluttered with 40 giveaway programs, flinging away $150,000 worth of prizes every month. Last week, acting officially, the FCC cracked down with a new set of rules, which reinterpret a 1934 anti-lottery statute...
...Constitutionalists hold that each age of Americans must reinterpret the Constitution in the light of changed social and economic conditions. Throughout the New Deal, the man who has held this belief most firmly has been Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson; and on the basis of Jackson's thinking, Franklin Roosevelt made his appointments to the Supreme Court. To do the job he sent up Hugo LaFayette Black (October 1937), Stanley Forman Reed (January 1938), Felix Frankfurter (January 1939), William Orville Douglas (April 1939) and Frank Murphy (February 1940). Liberally interpreted, these men are the new Constitution...