Word: alls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME of Nov. 6 quotes New York Times Correspondent Tolischus' anecdote quoting Stalin as having reassured a Baltic foreign minister with the words, "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians"-meaningful words turned meaningless because of a slight error. The reference is, of course, to...
The tradition is "that a successful President is elected for two terms and then voluntarily renounces a third term. . . . The ritual calls for placing the President in a position where to the infinite regret of all concerned he voluntarily renounces a third term. . . ."
But what if the incumbent should accept? There is no need for anxiety, said the detective: the ritual requires that the President be given the opportunity to refuse a third term; practical politics makes him refuse it. "The only man who could conceivably obtain a third term is one who...
In a characteristic judicial opinion he wrote: "Should all the rewards which are due to foresight, wisdom and enterprise of the men who conceived and constructed wisely be transferred by legislative authority to others?"
In the court which "Zeus" Hughes molded into a harddriving, efficient agency of government, Justice Butler was two invaluable things-a workhorse and a judicial craftsman. All jobs need professionals, plowmen who can drive their furrow in hard ground, and cut that furrow straight, deep and clean. Such a hard...