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...first case of national importance, Justice Wheat took a strict, hardheaded, Yankee view. Involved was no question of national emergency, such as impelled the U. S. Supreme Court at its last term to uphold certain State statutes that smacked of New Dealism. The problem, as Judge Wheat saw it, was to decide whether a socially-minded Congress had overreached the power the Constitution gave it to regulate interstate commerce...
...Harvard affirmative team, which will meet the Yale negative at Cambridge, is composed of James J. Fuld '37, Oscar M. Lurie '35, and Powers McLean '35. Another group of Harvard men consisting of Harold H. Freedlander '35, Victor H. Kramer '35, and Irving R. Murray '36 will uphold the negative side of the question against another Yale team at New Haven...
This mixed sextet announced the formation of the American Liberty League, which, following the custom of the day, promptly became known as ALL. The purpose of this "nonpartisan organization" was "to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and to gather and disseminate information that 1) will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and 2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property...
...Friday the judge said: "My duty as a sworn official is to uphold the authority of this court." Again, six hours in jail for the newshawks...
...Medeiros, and withdrew. Three days later Dr. Vargas rushed through his inauguration in five minutes. Only members of the diplomatic corps, Brazilian officials and their families were invited, but thousands swarmed outside Tiradentes Palace in the rain while President Vargas stood before the rostrum and gave his oath to uphold his new constitution for the next four years. Most novel provision of this 44-page opus compels each Minister of the Brazilian Government to provide himself with a "brain trust" of technical experts. On this point the new constitution reads: "It is forbidden to any Minister to take a step...