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With these major changes in the President's fiscal philosophy as a background, the President's budget supplied details for the immediate future...
...Governor, was beginning to think he might extend Wisconsin's new deal over the whole nation, when he ran smack into a popular revulsion against new-dealing. Like more than a third of the States, Wisconsin turned around and elected a Republican, who clearly (against Wisconsin's background) suggested what may happen in the nation if and when the Roosevelt New Deal is turned out by a Republican leader. Last week, under Julius Peter Heil, 62, "self-made industrialist, hard-headed businessman," Wisconsin enjoyed its first week of what-follows-after-the-new-deal...
Mooney's friends later proved that both the principal State witnesses committed perjury. They produced photographs of Mooney with a clock in the background showing that he was over a mile from the explosion when it occurred. But after Governor William Dennison Stephens was induced by Woodrow Wilson to commute Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment, four California Governors reopened the case only to snap it shut again...
...Protector" Daladier was "honored" to be received in white-walled Bardo Palace by plump, thin-bearded, 76-year-old Sidi Ahmed II, Bey of Tunis, figurehead ruler of the protectorate. Slender Erik Labonne, French Resident General, the real ruler of Tunisia, stayed in the background. As M. Daladier crossed the imaginary boundary line of the Bey's palace grounds he forgot to observe a 500-year-old custom which requires all visitors, high or low to bow. An attaché quickly reminded the Premier, who halted, backed up, bowed...
...becomes more competent to serve society. But the lawyer is faced with such a complete cross-section of human activity that his need for a broad outlook is paramount. Casual undergraduate training in economic and sociological principles, which is often the full extent of a law school graduate's background, is not sufficient' nor is a mere smattering of psychology and government adequate for either a judge or a practicing barrister. And above all, success in the struggle for social and economic betterment will depend partly on the skill with which all the weapons in the progressive armory are used...