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...made news nonetheless. Closer to the tradition of Holmes and Brandeis than to that of Hughes, they had plowed under old and respected landmarks; they had overturned, altogether, some 30 previous decisions of the Supreme Court; they had struck out boldly, sometimes brashly, into new grounds. Other courts had split more violently, but no court had quarreled so continuously and rambunctiously with itself, Whereas in the '20s and '30s the courts found themselves in solid agreement some 80% of the time, 70% of the time this term the court had found itself split...
Through all the sound & fury, Candidate Bose remained in Switzerland, rallying his supporters with long-distance statements: "Black-marketeering, profiteering, corruption, favoritism and nepotism stalk the land. There is resort to police terrorism on the slightest pretext. The Congress' name today is mud." Congress was split by petty quarrels, weakened by a 10% rise in food prices during the past year, and harassed by a Communist gang-up with Bose...
Congress has not complained since. The Senators' traditional snuffboxes and sand-shakers are filled without fail. Bills and documents are promptly distributed, errands are run lickety-split. (New pages are still sent on a fool's errand to find a "bill-stretcher...
...Brandenburg province, they voted their support of their Bishop to the last syllable. Said an official announcement: "As Dr. Dibelius intends to remain head of the Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg, he is hardly likely to discharge himself, and today's meeting shows that there is no split and no opposition within his church...
...death of her father. While trying to beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian suitor (Pedro Armendariz), her love for her young geologist partner (Robert Preston), and her new-found infatuation for Oilman Gough...