Word: constitutionalists
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Died. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, 68, famed lawyers' lawyer and constitutionalist chief justice (since 1948) of the New Jersey Supreme Court (who simplified and reformed the state court structure and procedures), onetime (1938) president of the American Bar Association, longtime (34 years) professor and dean'(1943-48) at New York University's Law School; of a rupture of the aorta; in Summit...
...careful thought-his opinions. Ike, carefully cordial toward Knowland, unfailingly calls him "Bill." Knowland, carefully correct, unfailingly calls Ike "Mr. President." In the privacy of his office Ike sometimes grows hot under the collar when Knowland challenges a cherished White House plan, but the President is a confirmed Constitutionalist and neither asks-nor expects-Knowland to toe the executive line. On one vital point Ike has no worries: he knows that honest Bill Knowland, whatever his personal stand on an issue, will report the Eisenhower views to the Senate faithfully, accurately and dispassionately...
Vyacheslav Molotov dodged. First he dipped into humor: Mr. Eden, he said wryly, had spoken "like a scholarly constitutionalist of a strict German type." Eden embarrassedly sucked a cigarette and studied the Last Judgment painted on the ceiling; the others had a good laugh...
...American citizens whose families came from that country. By basing this quota on the 1920 census, McCarran discriminates against southern and eastern Europeans, since there were proportionally fewer of them in America in the twenties than now. Negros are not counted in the census at all--probably staunch Constitutionalist McCarran's bow to the three-fifths rule. Moreover, professors and ministers of religion, who could formerly immigrate unrestricted, are now counted and rationed as well...
...Constitutionalist. In Buffalo, Democratic County Clerk Steven Pankow explained why he had bought $125 worth of tickets for the Erie County Republican Committee's yearly outing: "I believe in the two-party system...