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...superiority in arms is a symptom of more fundamental animosities. It is true, as the Senator laments, that the impending renunciation of treaty restrictions gives the lie to the professions of pacifism which our diplomats bandy about, but those paper limitations, so readily abandoned, are rather a confession of intent to give battle than a statement of Christian generosity. The signatories, like mutually mistrustful urchins, concede one another a theoretically equal start, but tacitly confess the possibility of hostilities...
...Justices is a gross exaggeration. As Justice Cardozo pointed out in an essay, the job of the courts is to apply the Constitution and the law in cases where they are obviously meant to apply. In other cases it may be necessary for the Court to search for the intent that was behind a law to fit a particular case. Then interpretation comes into play. It comes still more into prominence when a case arises which the law has not foreseen and about which the framers of the law had really no intention. In such cases the personal inclinations...
...Intent only on supplying existing demand, makers of 10? cigarets have lately been allowing their product to drift. Reasons: 1) rising tobacco prices have necessarily eliminated advertising and sales promotion: 2) most manufacturers did not have sufficient capital to accumulate large supplies of cheap raw tobacco when the price...
...more seats in the State Senate than populous Providence. In his zeal for this reform one local Democratic candidate referred to the villagers as "skunkhunters." A cry of rage swept the State. Meetings were held to which the villagers came by thousands leading tame skunks, dressed like back woodsmen, intent on making "skunkhunting" a title of honor. Felix Hebert hoped to be re-elected to the U. S. Senate, not as a Republican, not as a passionate music lover, but as a skunkhunter. Nonetheless Rhode Island turned to a onetime polo player and yachtsman, the present husband of George...
...asked for no more. But they were disappointed that President Roosevelt did not grasp more firmly the hand that Banker Reynolds had so handsomely extended. The President did not even acknowledge Banker Reynolds' speech. All he said was: "The time is ripe for an alliance of all forces intent upon the business of recovery. In such an alliance will be found business and banking, agriculture and industry, and labor and capital. What an all-American team that...