Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...implies that we are guilty of "triviality, lack of seriousness, immaturity, meagre preparation, an inclination to turn a serious occasion into a holiday." If he thinks that Harvard took the debate very lightly and made meagre preparation, he must be corrected. Seven members of the Debating Council studied that question for weeks, collected a mass of original material, went to Symphony Hall determined to place the question in its more serious aspects before the audience. We felt and still feel that much more than a discussion of national prohibition was involved. It is true that we did not make...
...most frequently cited opinions dealing with the rights of corporations under anti-trust laws; his decision in the Burlington railroad case established the right of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates, both interstate and intrastate; his half dozen opinions on various phases of the prohibition law enforcement question are all basic and all outstanding. Wuchter v. Pazzutti on the limitations on certain rights of this state and of state courts is a recent example...
Behind the contest on the Hughes nomination was a major question of economics, in the centre of which stands the Supreme Court. The 14th Amendment says: "Nor shall any State deprive any person [or corporation] of life, liberty or property without due process of law." When a State agency attempts to reduce or regulate the rates charged by a public service corporation (power, gas, transportation, communications) and thereby affect its profits, that corporation may carry its objections to the Supreme Court. There it claims that the State agency has violated the 14th Amendment by depriving it of its "property...
...lived to write the famed Dred Scott decision (1857) which voided the Missouri Compromise, denied Congress the right to abolish slavery in the territories and thus helped to advance the Civil War. Senators warned that Chief Justice Hughes might someday write a decision on an economic question as pregnant with awful consequences as was the Dred Scott decision...
...making it a question of confidence with the full approval of my chief, Prime Minister Tardieu...