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...pledges abolishment of the Railroad Labor Board. It pledges a measure to annul the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws permanently unconstitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Recommendation | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon on the Divinity Courts, the undefeated second tennis team met the undefeated. Freshmen annul it was the latter team that took the short end of the 5-4 score. The strong wide that blew across the courts made fast tennis out of the question and most the matches deteriorated into pat-ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seconds Vanquish 1927 Tennis Team | 5/20/1924 | See Source »

...have an even more radical plan which would allow no subordinate judge to set aside an Act of Congress and would allow the Supreme Court to set aside a law only once. If it should be passed by Congress a second time the Supreme Court would be powerless to annul it. This would have the effect of allowing Congress to override any part of the Constitution at will, if Congressmen could agree with themselves twice in succession. Clearly this plan would require a Constitutional Amendment and Mr. La Follette is planning to submit one. One of the arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Power of the Bench | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

PENNSYLVANIA: Governor Pinchot wrote to Governor Smith of New York, asking that the suit before the United States Supreme Court to annul the Federal Water Power Law be withdrawn. New York wants a monopoly on the water power developed within its boundaries (notably at Niagara Falls). Governor Pinchot suggests that Pennsylvania and other states have their quota of the Niagara power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Mar. 17, 1923 | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

Additional consideration in the interest of physical education, and, perhaps most important of all, for the training of teachers, recommend the bill highly. The ramifications of its provisions are designed to insure adequate and proper administration of the funds. This is important, politics would rapidly annul the value of a Department of Education With the saving to the country resulting from the naval holiday, and under capable leadership with a man of the calibre of General Dawes in the Secretary's chair. It is difficult to see how the money expended could do other than be an investment of permanent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTEAD OF A BONUS | 2/6/1922 | See Source »

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