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TIME unusually well-read and well-informed ought to answer a question that bothers my humble mind void of any legal enlightenment...
...answering the statement that the New Deal measures have helped business, Sullivan referred to the drop in the stock market when the NRA and AAA were passed and the subsequent rise when they were declared void by the court. He went on to call the administration the most remarkable political matchine of all time and summed up their political and economic philosophy as "Hell bent for election...
...winners supported the negative of the subject: Resolved, That the Supreme Court should be divested of its power to declare acts of Congress void. The judges were Dean Leighton '19, Oscar Sutermeister '32, and Douglas P. Adams...
...torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand," set aside the sentences. Having contributed to the dramatic tension by putting human rights first, Chief Justice Hughes took up property rights next. The case: minority preferred stock-holders of Alabama Power Co. who asked that the Supreme Court void the sale by that company of a transmission line to TVA on the ground that TVA was unconstitutional. The long-awaited hour had come. The crowd craned their necks to catch every word. The Chief Justice spoke with unusual deliberation, pausing now & then to peer at his audience. The first...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...