Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...agreed with the power company that it needed no license for its dam, since the New was unnavigable in fact and thus in law. By a 6-2 decision* stated by Justice Stanley Reed, the Court reversed these previous findings, held that the New was navigable, that Appalachian was subject to license and regulation...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt vetoed the Logan-Walter bill in scorching words. Reasons: it would hamper national defense, flood the courts with unnecessary litigation, subject all administrative action to control of the judiciary, produce only delay, chaos, paralysis. He concluded: "Today, in sustaining American ideals of justice, an ounce of action is worth more than a pound of argument...
...Marshal Rodolfo Graziani had just completed from Sidi Barrani back to bases in Libya, Italy's Army of the stagnant Egyptian invasion ran for its life. Along an Albanian road hugging the cliffs spectacularly from Porto Edda to Valona, built by the Italians during the last war and subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop were also reported on the highroad toward Rome, to speak to their little brother...
...hear William S. Knudsen tell them about the progress of defense. They had in fact been discussing defense for three days. The Congress' theme was "Total Preparedness for America's Future." Laying once and for all the ghostly fable that business is a united front on any subject, the subject of defense found the cream of American industry unable to make up its mind...
...breed better books the club itself has whelped 97 masterfully made volumes on bookmaking and bibliography, has built the best reference collection on the subject in the U. S. Its dim library of some 27,000 books-about-books. guarded by busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers...