Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victorious in defending eight major New Deal laws before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Reed suffered three defeats, in cases involving NRA, AAA and the Bankhead Act (where a combination of overwork and hostility from the bench brought him to a courtroom collapse). After the AAA case his dark, lively wife, Winifred, long active in politics as registrar general of the D. A. R., performed the most audacious political feat of Washington's 1936 social season by inviting all the Supreme Court Justices to dinner...
...Socialists asked time out to consider whether they would stick with the Communists or with the moderate, misnamed Radical Socialist Party of Chautemps, the second largest party in the Chamber. Out of the Socialist huddle came Blum to hand Chautemps his own resignation and that of the other eight Socialist ministers. This automatically wrecked the Cabinet. The hour was 4:30 a. m. Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. "Blum will be the next Premier!" exulted his Socialist henchmen and Communist friends...
...Octave: the eight days over which an important Catholic feast is celebrated. Epiphany (January 6) commemorates the visit of the Wise Men to the Infant Christ...
...years ago last autumn, De Paul University (Roman Catholic) in Chicago promised a job, at $2,000 for a school year, to Dr. John B. Fuller, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, for eight years a German teacher with a good record at Amherst College. De Paul shortly changed its mind, told Dr. Fuller that he "would not fit into the picture." Dr. Fuller brought suit for $2,000. Though the jury's verdict was in his favor, the trial judge set it aside. Last week the Appellate Court upheld the trial judge. Reason: According to De Paul...
When a big three-motored T. W. A. Fokker crashed in 1931, killing among others Knute Kenneth Rockne, that type of plane was grounded. Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce (day after it was done by the company itself) grounded Northwest Airlines' eight new Lockheed 14 H transports, fastest in the world. One had crashed with ten people in Montana fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 17). From the 1931 order the Fokker plant never recovered; Fokker airplanes disappeared from...