Word: augusts
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Just as dozens of New Deal laws transfer power from Congress to the President, so the new Federal Procedure Act transfers power from Congress to the U. S. Supreme Court. Heretofore that august tribunal has worked reforms only in the matter of speeding up appeals from below. Henceforth the Supreme Court will fix rules of procedure in all Federal Courts- conveniently simple, workable, and uniform rules that can be changed without legislation when conditions demand. In drafting its rules the Supreme Court will probably have the help of a special assistant to the Attorney General and heed the advice...
...year, it is only human that the broadcaster should endeavor, as the popular phrase so prettily puts it, not to stick his neck out." Taken by the Tribune as a direct warning to broadcasters to pull in their necks was the announcement by Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount last August: "It is the patriotic, if not the bounden and legal duty, of all licensees . . . to deny their facilities to advertisers who are disposed to defy, ignore or modify the codes established...
...been lanced and half a fingernail removed, Lord Horder insisted on going thoroughly over his patient. The eyes were indeed weak; general condition, rundown. Meekly James Ramsay MacDonald assented when Lord Horder told him he must positively quit London at once without waiting for Parliament to rise in August...
...Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
...Next August, Bernard Mannes Baruch will be 64. About that time, when he returns from Vichy, France, he will go to work in a new office in midtown Manhattan, four miles north of the office at No. 120 Broadway which he has occupied for the last six years. That move will mark a major milestone in the Baruch career. Last week Mr. Baruch explained the reason to an Associated Pressman: he is going to give up finance for literature, to write three books, The Autobiography of an American Boy, The Way That Lies Ahead for the Youth of America...