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...change, nor by liberals who would put no check on hasty attempts to alter the face of government. Yet this well-balanced court is in a tight spot. A majority may believe that it would be less serious for the U. S. to face the economic upset caused by upholding the gold clauses than to establish a precedent that may in future make all contracts into scraps of paper to be blown hither & thither by any political wind. But if the Court should decide to uphold the gold clauses, the reaction ot the country against the Court would be indeed...
...Colonel William J. Donovan, Major de Lancey Kountze, Colonel Bennett Champ Clark, Major John Thomas Taylor. With Colonel Clark in the chair, they formed themselves into a society whose purpose was expressed in a preamble: "For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution . . . Law and order . . . 100% Americanism . . . Memories . . . Individual obligation to the community . . . Right . . . Peace . . . Justice, freedom and democracy . . . . . Devotion to mutual helpfulness...
Compromise. Last week's A. P. poll, showing that at least 35 Senators would uphold a veto of a law for full payment of the bonus certificates, will mean little by the time a bonus bill comes to passage. For the Senators committed themselves against "outright and immediate payment." In short, they are opposed to yielding to the Legion's full demand. In most Congressmen's minds the issue had last week boiled down to a question of how much cash to give. Messrs. Taylor & Belgrano have not yet set their seal to any definite bill...
Stanchest defender of the faith in contracts, Wall Street last week exhibited a severe case of financial jitters over the possibility that the U. S. Supreme Court might uphold the inviolability of the so-called gold clause (see p. 18). Completely lost on the agitated gentlemen of the nation's downtown districts was the cold fact that 1935 was already setting new recovery records...
Avoiding the extremes in body lines of many new cars, the Buick makes its appeal to those of more conservative tastes. Though it offers no radical changes, this car continues to uphold its tradition of dependability and conservatism...