Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus disposed of the unemployment insurance law, Justice Cardozo went on to the old-age annuity section. This was an appeal by the Government from a lower court decision in favor of Stockholder George P. Davis who sued Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston to restrain it from paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform...
...fruit of his evening's work was one sentence, containing over 100 words. It began: "Having held my commission as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and served in that court for 26 years, and having come to be 78 years of age...
Unhappily this was not all sweet music to the New Dealers. First, Mr. Robinson is 64, four years older than the President's arbitrary age limit for judicial appointees. He would not be eligible to retire with pay until he had served ten years and reached 74. Having made a fuss about judges retiring at 70, Franklin Roosevelt would make himself look foolish if he appointed Senator Robinson the first time he had an opportunity to name a Justice to the Supreme Court. Second, as New Dealers well know, Joe Robinson has on many occasions been a New Dealer...
Both Aristotle and Confucius taught the doctrine of the "Golden Mean", and this age-old truth may very well be applied to the problem of teaching and research. These two functions must be blended into a harmonious whole, if undergraduate instruction and the pursuit of knowledge are to benefit equally. At Harvard the balance is all askew; the pressure on young men to publish, or "perish", is so great that their teaching and tutorial sessions suffer. A man may be taught to lecture in a comparatively short time, but the gift of inspiration and ability to stimulate youth...
...tall lady, who has long passed the age of frivolity, feels at the velvet ribbon about here wrinkled neck, and then, to call attention to here irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first...