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From then on, however, the Hoddermen showed flashes of the hockey of which they are capable. But even then, the attack did not function smoothly, indicating that this first taste of natural ice was not altogether enjoyable. Warren Winslow, George Duane, and Stacey Hulse brought the count up to 3 to 6; Indian goalie Lapres turned Back several other serious bids as Harvard forced the play continually...
...150th birthday might have been completely overlooked. With patriotic satisfaction Congressman Bloom heard Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Charles A. Beardsley of Oakland, Calif., president of the American Bar Association, and Chief Justice Charles Evans ("Zeus") Hughes extol the sesquicentenarian Court. Said Chief Justice Hughes: "It is the unique function of this Court not to dictate policy, nor to promote or oppose crusades, but to maintain the balance between States and Nation through the maintenance of the rights and duties of individuals. ... At the end of 150 years, this tribunal still stands as an embodiment of the ideal...
...York Times and Edwin S. ("Ned") McIntosh of the New York Herald Tribune, thought they had found the dark horse of the Republican Convention in short, swart Joseph William Martin Jr., able minority leader of the House of Representatives. From Topeka, Kans., where Nominee Alf Landon performed the same function in 1936, Joe Martin keynoted at the famed Republican Kansas Day rally. Messrs. Hagerty & McIntosh reported that Republican leaders from all over the country were much impressed by popular, modest Mr. Martin, who offered as a platform the same twelve-point, help-business program he gave Congressmen a year...
...announced as "still on its way" 24 hours after the train was due at Waterloo Station. LONDON TRAINS MISSING, SCOTTISH TRAINS LOST screamed newspaper headlines. At Euston Station three trains from the north failed to turn up for more than a day. Two main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor, in Lanarkshire. An inn proprietor put them up, rationed her small supply of food...
...judicial angles of the work of a Labor Relations Board or a Federal Communications Commission. Obviously, the Supreme Court is that body. Recent cases involving the NLRB show a tendency to recognize its new duty. Necessary now is only increasing recognition that, in the Chief Justice's words, the function of the court is "not to dictate policy, not to promote or oppose crusades," but to provide the "quiet, deliberate and effective determination of an arbiter of the fundamental questions which inevitably grow out of our constitutional system...