Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downpour, her new inauguration bonnet resembling a last year's bathing cap. It was not the buffet luncheon in the White House with 500 recently soaked notables. It was not the hour and a half spent in the reviewing stand-an $11,000 model of Andrew Jackson's home The Hermitage erected before the White House, where the President stood exposed in a sort of showcase whose bullet-proof glass windows he had removed, the better to be seen and rained on, while he reviewed a parade of 32 Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine...
...Andrew Johnson's appointees, William M. Evarts, left office saying: "I shall return to my business of farming and lawing and leave to the newspaper correspondents the conduct of affairs." Such great controversies as those over Federalism, the U. S. Bank, Dred Scott, Monopoly, Eugene V. Debs and Prohibition throw into relief the development and processes of government. These Messrs. Cummings & McFarland highlight. Emphasis and appreciable New Deal bias is placed on references by Presidents and great U. S. legalists to the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Associate Justice William Pater son: "The Constitution has been considered an accommodating...
acts of Congress?" (1802) Chief Justice John Marshall: "To undertake here [in the Supreme Court] to inquire into the degree of ... necessity, would be ... to tread on legislative ground." (1819) Andrew Jackson: "When the laws undertake ... to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society...
When Manhattan lawyers were no longer permitted or willing to enter the case of John Peter Zenger in 1735, an eminent Philadelphian named Andrew Hamilton was called in to defend Printer Zenger on charges of seditious libel of New York's Governor. Indignation which importation of a Philadelphia lawyer created among Manhattan burghers quickly changed to admiration, however, when Lawyer Hamilton's brilliant defense secured Printer Zenger's acquittal, established freedom of the U. S. Press. Also established was the folk-usage of "Philadelphia lawyer" as a synonym for shrewdness...
...members who will receive the less substantial loser's check, are Dwight K. Parsons and Andrew S. Grey, speakers; and John G. Brooks, 2d., Samuel W. Earnshaw, John G. Hurd, Thomas W. Leidy, Frederic J. Poor, Jr., and Howard S. Whiteside, who worked on the brief...