Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another chance for its life lies in the Supreme Court decisions. If, by the end of the month, the Court should sustain certain vital sections of the NRA now under examination, Mr. Roosevelt probably will be able to force the Senate to comply with his wishes. In passing, one cannot help suggesting that now when time is such a precious element in the fate of the Blue Eagle, the President may not look on Professor Frankfurter with too fond feelings. It was the latter's advice that major court tests of the NRA be delayed. But that was when...
Last week Clem Sohn went up in a plane, jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from...
...began with the assumption that President Roosevelt could not prevent the preliminary passage by House and Senate of a certain measure, that his veto would be roughly overridden by the House. It ended with the discovery that 35 Senators-just two more than the requisite number-would vote to sustain the veto. According to the theory of responsible party government, the idea that the leader of 322 out of 434 votes in the House and 68 out of 96 votes in the Senate should find himself in this strait position was sheer extravaganza. But according to the theory of practical...
...expenditure well within the means of the funeral purchaser, than it is for some women to lavishly buy cosmetics and hairdressing attention, some men to own magnificent yachts, racing stables, or "harems," or for anyone to indulge themselves in anything beyond that which is necessary to actually sustain life...
...page opinion on TVA constitutionality by Messrs. Baker and Beck. Following Judge Grubb's reasoning, Attorneys Baker & Beck concluded: "Neither the power to regulate interstate commerce (including specifically powers over navigation and flood control), nor any of the war powers, nor the power to dispose of government property, sustain the authority of the Congress to enact the Tennessee Valley Act of 1933 and to create the TVA thereunder...