Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claudius J. Byrne '39, Richard W. Sullivan '38 and Joseph P. Healey '38 started out with a tirade against Roosevelt and denied that there was any real need for a change. Roosevelt was out-and-out packing the Court for political reasons. What they may have lacked in argument was made up for by a surprising strength in delivery...
...Case. The Guild appealed to the National Labor Relations Board which summoned the AP to a hearing with Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School as Trial Examiner. John W. Davis, 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate, counsel for the AP, denied the jurisdiction of the NLRB, made no argument as to the facts of Watson's discharge. Clark ruled the AP must reinstate Watson because he had been 'discharged for Guild activities. The AP refused. NLRB then asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order against the AP. This was granted...
...Attorney Davis was rebuffed on his freedom of the press argument he was overwhelmed on his claim, startling to lay minds, that the far-flung AP is not engaged in interstate commerce. His brilliant legal argument, his citation of prior cases in which the Supreme Court had ruled that such businesses as insurance, buying and selling bills of exchange and reporting credit standings, are not interstate commerce even though they operate interstate, were swept aside in a ruling that "interstate communication of a business nature, whatever the means of such communication, is interstate commerce regulatable by Congress under the Constitution...
That the Wagner Act was unconstitutional was denied by the Court in the other NLRA cases decided by the Court that day and the AP's third argument was disposed of by reference to them. Dutifully the AP notified the NLRB to have Reporter Watson return to work the next morning...
...been supported as a satisfactory method of getting all undergraduates to contribute to the upkeep of the athletic equipment. Objection to the proposal rests on the ground that it is unfair to tax a disinterested minority for opportunities which they do not want, but the most telling argument against the compulsory levy is the fact that the additional revenue that could be squeezed from the few people who now do not hold participation cards would make hardly a ripple on the H.A.A.'s budgetary pond...