Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court by handing down an unwritten decision granting the demurrer on the grounds that Mr. Belcher was being deprived of his property without due process of law, that the Recovery Act unlawfully delegated judicial and legislative powers to the President, that the lumber business is an intrastate affair and therefore no Federal concern...
Paris, Nov. 9--A new financial scandal, involving a hundred million francs (about $6,600,000), broke out today upon a Paris still feeling the after-effects of the Stavisky affair...
...dangerous task of deciding when students have kept "within the law." This task is in no sense fitting to a university, which cannot be considered a competent judge of legal matters. More important, however, is the fact that a student's activities outside the campus are solely his own affair. If he chooses to run the risk of participating in violent demonstrations on questions political or otherwise, he must expect to find himself involved in difficulties for which he may or may not be responsible. Whether or no he oversteps the bounds of the law, he must accept the same...
...editors of the two boards have decided to treat the affair of 1926 without gloved hands for it is felt that the sight of the two colleges represented in one magazine will be sufficient to show Harvard and Princeton alumni that the relations of their respective alma maters are now amicable and sound...
...substantiate our opinions. A mere statement of opinion does not guarantee its right of existence as such, but it must be logical in itself and logical in its assumptions. For instance, the author in question says: "The Administration's Federal Relief system is an instance of a two sided affair." And he goes directly on to talk about charity and ethics, while we wait patiently but in vain for an exposition of the two sides. But by that time we have forgotten, too. However, it is an excellent example of his logic. Reading on: "Not even Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert...