Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Long before Christmas, four neat little potted cedars were placed on either side of the White House front door. The "public" Christmas tree, a ten-foot Norwegian spruce glistening with artificial snow and icicles, was set up in the East Room before the broad French windows. On wintery Washington evenings the old house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows...
...grim short-term deadline-the fair skies of spring in England, when Hitler may invade Britain. The other was to expand the whole U. S. economy into enormous productivity for the long-term struggle against a possibly victorious Axis -a project that was moving like a big river, so broad that the actual speed of the current was almost imperceptible...
...stream navigable by boats drawing two feet or more is "navigable"; 2) any stream that can be improved into navigability by expenditure of any "reasonable" amount of money is "navigable." The court further held that the authority of the Government over any navigable stream "is as broad as the needs of commerce"-a definition which broadened the commerce clause of the Constitution almost immeasurably. Justices Owen Roberts and James C. McReynolds dissented vigorously, holding that ". . . then every creek in every State of the Union which has enough water ... to float a boat drawing two feet of water may be pronounced...
...results eventually in any appreciable volume, Mr. Morgenthau must be empowered to stop the granting of tax exemptions on long-term bonds. To make that step he must ask Congress for a new law. To tax State and municipal securities, that law must be broad enough to invade States' rights. Inevitably it will be contested in the courts. His other alternative: to get a new Constitutional amendment, which no one expected would ever be ratified by the States...
Paul Tappan '09, 123 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...