Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson wishes to correct the statement attributed to Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, appearing in Monday's issue, in which he was quoted as denying the right of the Court to pass upon the validity of an act of Congress. This statement was a quotation from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson and was read for the purpose of illustrating Jefferson's point of view...
...left Mr. Reid's New York Tribune to join the World. Mr. Reid considered this an act of disloyalty. At the end of the World in 1931, Ogden Reid did not want F. P. A. back on his paper-now the Herald Tribune-on any terms. But Mrs. Ogden Reid knew the sheet needed a good column and overruled her husband. F. P. A. returned at $25,000 a year, which was later reduced...
...since been conducting a "friendly" legal campaign for 95 of his fellow West New York teachers to determine whether their contracts were binding under the State's Tenure Law of 1909. The cuts were last week finally upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled: "The Act of 1909 . . . was but a regulation of the conduct of the board and not a term of a continuing contract of indefinite duration with the individual teacher...
Other new singers were less impressive. Vina Bovy sang carelessly, seldom felt any obligation to act (TIME, Jan. 18). When Gertrud Ruenger, originally a contralto at the Vienna Staatsoper, took the soprano role of Brünnhilde, she sounded shrill and lifeless. John Brownlee, a young Australian baritone, made an indifferent Rigoletto. But Kerstin Thorborg raised the recruits' average with a splendid Fricka...
...banks by buying goods in other countries. Many an observer feels that more toughness earlier on the part of bondholders would have mitigated the U. S. investor's sorry lot. The logical people to get tough are the bankers who floated the issues originally and now act as fiscal agents for the bonds. It so happens that many of these fiscal agents are also short-term Reich creditors, either under the standstill agreements or as holders of Reich Treasury dollar notes. Seizure of German bank balances in the U. S. for the benefit of U. S. bondholders would mean...