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...gold clauses if they can do so without sacrificing what they regard as vital principles. Several ingenious compromises are, however, open to the Court. Example: By upholding Mr. Cummings' contention that private persons who wrote gold clauses were squatting on the public domain, the Court could void such claims in private bonds but make the Government pay what is nominated in its own bonds, since obviously the Government cannot squat on its own domain...
...primarily emergency measures. And last week a Federal Judge in Birmingham, Ala. seriously questioned whether TVA's vast power schemes were really incidental to the development of waterways. If they were not incidental, then they were obviously unconstitutional and the heart of the Tennessee Valley experiment was null & void...
...seeing with the eyes of a poorly or falsely informed foreign world." Next day, in a suit to test Reichsbischof Müller's January decree on which he based his Protestant dictatorship, the Berlin High Court declared: "The decree undoubtedly is invalid, and thus everything is null and void that the Reichsbischof has done on the strength of the powers he has given to himself by a crass infraction...
...determination of policy. The amendments are and will continue to be treated as null and void." Mr. Lewis took the floor. "There is no reasonable man," he began, "who does not recognize that statement as bombast. The Alabama coal operators are not quite ready to declare war on the United States. But"-he paused and glowered-"if they feel that way, the United Mine Workers are ready within 15 days to furnish the President with 20 army divisions to force them to comply with the law." Mr. Johnston, very much in earnest, interrupted : "As between civil war in the industry...
...diplomatic scene, it appears that heaven contains not one Aristophanes, but many, all of them more than slightly insane. On no other hypothesis can one contemplate the present without an unpleasant intellectual vertigo. As foreign office vies with foreign office in the publication of phantasmal solemnities which become increasingly void and without rational substance, one recalls with cheerful malice the Aristotelian dictum that "Man is a rational animal." In a wholly objective mood one is tempted to congratulate the rest of the animal kingdom on its fortunate escape...