Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Others put the argument in different fashion. Explaining his position to the Indiana General Assembly, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill of South Bend, wrote: "A packed jury, a packed Court and a stacked deck of cards are on the same moral plane. ... It is more power than a good man should want or a bad man should have...
...worth of U. S. utilitarians only glared whenever the Securities & Exchange Commission made its stock appeal to their better selves-that by hushing their high-priced lawyers and registering under the Public Utility Act they could take advantage of the easy money market. Last month SEC's old argument gained new point with Judge Mack's decision in the Electric Bond & Share case (TIME, Feb. 8), which enabled a utility to register with SEC without thereby admitting the constitutionality of the Act's more dreaded provisions. Not slow to underscore this ruling was SEC's Chairman...
Righteous Argument As Franklin Roosevelt unfolded his plan, sweet reasonableness was its disarming keynote. He proposed no alteration of the Constitution, no limitation of the powers of the courts. He unveiled a foundation of ample precedent, buttressed by arguments often made in the past by eminent jurists, for improvement of the judicial system. Only a month ago he had proposed a plan to reorganize the executive branch (TIME, Jan. 25). Now he merely proposed to rejuvenate the judicial branch...
Numbers. As obviously as the President's message was an argument for a change in the judiciary on the simple grounds of good government, his major proposal had an ulterior motive. It was patently contrived to let him override the Supreme Court as now constituted by adding or replacing Justices to support the legal contentions of the New Deal. Conservatives Butler, 70, Sutherland and Hughes, 74, McReynolds, 75, Van Devanter, 77, are all of retirement age. Of the Liberals, only Justice Brandeis, 80, would be affected...
Salesman of News-Week to its charter investors was an ambitious Englishman, Capt. Thomas J. C. Martyn, a onetime foreign news editor of TIME. Through his second wife, a Cheney (silk), and other connections, and using TIME's record as a sales argument, he was able to enlist the following sums from the follow-ing principals for original and salvage financing...