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...such a constitutional amendment or limitation of the Court's power as other New Dealers had hastily proposed. The political opportunity for taking such measures may well be an adverse decision on the Wagner Labor Relations Act or similar New Deal measures. The Court, however, must now dread taking such a step far more than if the President had taken a threatening tone. For now the Court itself rather than the President will appear to be forcing the issue. By his message to Congress Franklin Roosevelt outflanked the position of the Supreme Court. If and when it chooses...
Soothed Dr. Little, one of whose major jobs is to direct the American Society for the Control of Cancer: "We know so little about how cancer is inherited that there is no cause for fear and dread, and there is no basis for predictions concerning inheritance of cancer in any individual case...
...memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy but shrewd, a celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers but preserving a strong streak of hard-headed commonsense. Her European experiences, which ended as she returned to the U. S. filled with dread for the "ugly" future, were of the "not quite" variety-she was almost unfaithful to her architect husband, nearly left him, came close to killing herself...
...week the leg of Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge...
...burnt their five-acre farm that represented two years of labor, killed the cow that represented all their wealth. Then when the Valley people were cooped up in the stockade at Little Stone Arabia, Lana's first child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia...