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...until he was an old man did Louis Brandeis see an era where many men in power shared his penetrations and fears. A "liberal" Justice before the New Deal crystallized division of social & political thought on the Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent. But he was no "New Deal Justice." The core of his social philosophy was a distrust of all arrangements, public or private, that too heavily taxed human fallibility. His grave objection to NRA was vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt...
...National Association of Manufacturers. He will speak on Democracy and the Modern World. Before the Edens sailed from Southampton last week, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax declared to the House of Lords: "Mr. Eden ... is going to the United States not as a Cabinet Minister, but with the fullest assent and approbation of the British Government. I have no doubt but that his visit will be extremely valuable in establishing contacts." Seven-year-old Son Nicholas, before solemnly saying good-by to Father Eden at Southampton, admonished: "Now you have a big job on!" Said Anthony Eden to the press...
...should in the future require that there shall be on the Council one non-House man with no regular eating place, or if the lining-hall privilege is extended, it should require the presence of a non-House, non-club man. This change can be readily effected with the assent of two-thirds of the seventeen members, and once accomplished, it will do much to make the Council more representative...
...boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When the examining magistrate, required by island law to pass on all indentures, popped the important question, Flynn would gravely hold up three interrogating fingers, was invariably rewarded with almost hysterical assent. When his conscience hurts nowadays, Flynn recalls that many of the boys came out of the bush emaciated, ulcered, unhappy, but after a few months of British guidance could be seen spryly playing football, "healthy...
...Like a Dream," Same day at London the House of Lords raised a remarkable chorus of assent to the Nazification of Austria. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England read to Their Lordships a letter he said he had just received from a very eminent Viennese artist who described the events in Austria as "a sudden salvation, which seemed to us like a dream...