Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House lawn, 4,000 of their elders were exploring the marble corridors of the new Supreme Courthouse. Little did many of them know beforehand of the momentous things that might happen during their visit. Little did they know when something did happen, for the courtroom was too small to admit more than a fraction of their number. But the connoisseurs knew and were present. Stanley Reed, Robert H. Jackson and James W. Morris, top-flight attorneys of the Department of Justice, all had pre-empted front seats. Present also were Senator Robert Wagner of New York, Chinese Ambassador...
...seemed that Benito Mussolini, who at latest reports had withdrawn to seclusion on his farm, where it is Il Duce's habit to make grave decisions, would now have to admit that Dictator Stalin's agents are getting together the better Spanish war machine. Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like...
Opponents did their best to make it hot for the law professors. Leon Green was forced to admit that he had discussed his arguments beforehand with lawyers in the Attorney General's office, that friends had advanced his name for nomination as a judge of the circuit court. Professor Corwin blushingly confessed under pressure that he had said only last year that there were serious objections to "packing" the Court. Justin Miller received his comeuppance while he was propounding a theory that the age of Justices of the Supreme Court was proportional to the number of laws they found...
Though they would scorn to admit that Mr. O'Hara & associates had them frightened, the Journal and Bulletin by last week had done plenty to fend off the News-Tribune and the Star in a circulation war. Outstanding preparations included amplifying personnel, buying another page of comics for the Bulletin and Hearst International News Service and Universal Service to supplement the A. P.. United Press, and North American Newspaper Alliance Services on both sheets...
...twisted decisions of a few justices that have established this unnatural connection between the meaning of the Constitution and their continued existence. Unless Mr. Roosevelt can somehow circumvent the consequences of the social prepossessions of several justices, he is forced to wait unhappily for their deaths. Those who would admit a changed constitutional interpretation only when the objectionable judges die really argue for assassination. Sincerely, R. I. Bishop...