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Modest proposals. On the basis of these old and eminently reasonable arguments, the President made his proposals: Let the Chief Justice have power to assign temporarily lower court justices from one court to another when dockets grow crowded. Let the Supreme Court have a new officer, a $10,000-a-year "proctor" to watch for congestion in the lower courts and recommend transfers of judges and other steps to relieve it. Let any decision on the constitutionality of a law be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, there to take precedence over other cases so that the constitutionality of laws...
...paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason for such miraculous preservation but he thought it possible that the little body had fallen into the edge of a pond or puddle and been covered quickly with protecting sand. No attempt will be made to reassemble the skeleton as no wire fine enough for the job is available. Drawings will...
Anthropology is neither an old science like mathematics, astronomy and medicine, nor a modern one like genetics or electronics. The ancient Greeks were willing enough to assign man a place in the animal kingdom and some of them, notably Anaximander, had an inkling of evolution. But they were content to speculate and philosophize. In the early 19th Century anthropology as a science had made little headway. Species and varieties of plants and animals were considered changeless, and so were the races of man. The strange manlike bones found here & there in caves and quarries were thought to be the remains...
...might suggest that you assign the biased writer of that article to the job of tabulating the election returns, at which time Milwaukee will decide whether to swing toward Marxism or return to American principles of government...
...wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service to every inhabitant of the U. S. who cannot afford them. As filler for doctors' pocketbooks he would permit the present system of the private practice of medicine to continue, would have private practitioners dispense the free drugs, assign patients to the free hospitals. By the nature of Dr. Parran's plans, thousands of the 167,000 doctors in this country would be obliged to take jobs with city, state or Federal medical agencies. They would thus abandon the legalized privileges of the professional man, the right to deal...