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...tradition. Professor Frankfurter is an idealist and an enthusiast, who will not confine himself to more defense of the status quo; that he is endowed with the judicial temperament is to be doubted. He will, however, collaborate with six other justices, with whose opinions, doubtless, he will frequently express dissent. In this over-worked court, criticized as too narrowly legalistic, his will be a leavening influence; the combination should result to the benefit of Massachusetts...
...dissent from the view that there is any need of artificial inflation of the credits or currency of the country," declared Senator Glass when his bill was reported out by committee, "but if there, is to be any more inflation it should be brought about by a simple method which everybody may understand and not by the roundabout process which is being vainly tried by the Federal Reserve authorities. I think there should be 'diffusive' inflation rather than so-called 'controlled' inflation. ... I distinctly disavow the belief that any of these legislative devices is necessary...
...ubiquitous depression may be teaching the young men a new wisdom, or it may be simply that styles are changing, but the two critical notes of the issue contain a pronounced dissent from the worship of yesterday's literary deities. The author of the current editorial has made the immense discov- ery that "violence can be a vogue and, like all vogues, presently become outworn." Therefore, O'Neill, Jeffers, and Faulkner are each awarded a great big question mark. Regardless of what posterity will ultimately decide to be the permanent value of these authors, I cannot help feeling that such...
Last Week in the Supreme Court the 14th Amendment wrecked another State experiment in economics?and brought forth what may become a historic dissent. In an attempt to control competition, the Oklahoma Legislature provided that the manufacture of ice was a public utility and that ice producers must obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the State Corporation Commission. New State Ice Co. of Oklahoma City complied with this statute. When one Ernest A. Liebeman started to put up an ice plant without a certificate, New State Ice Co. went into Federal Court for relief. On appeal, six justices...
...caustic Senator Reed who added that "a rowboat appeared to be in charge of the fleet." When the London Treaty limiting auxiliary naval craft arrived in the Senate, he mischievously used his committee, which had nothing to do with the treaty, to bring out the Navy's dissent with the Hoover policy. He later voted against the treaty's ratification as a bad bargain for U. S. defense...