Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less astounding than it sounded, Senator Borah's contention was based on a fine definition. The U. S. Constitution provides that "The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." Because the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned and accepted a pension which in 1932 was cut in half as an economy measure, the Supreme Court Retirement Act was passed this year to give elderly justices a better reason for quitting...
...before Mr. Sloan released his tract, another report from another freshman in modern labor relations-U. S. Steel Corp. -published June quarter earnings. Without strife or struggle Big Steel came to terms with John L. Lewis late last winter, and if it had any complaints on the subsequent behavior of the steel union, it kept them strictly to itself. While "Little Steel" was fighting Labor on a dozen bloody fronts, Big Steel piled up the biggest first-half profit in seven years-$64,000,000, quadruple the figure for the same period of 1936. With part of these profits...
Their Lordships did not thus succeed until after a public breakdown, apropos the bill, had been suffered recently in their House by the 18th Earl of Moray, a decorated War veteran whose behavior was such that British press associations at first suppressed the story altogether and even London correspondents cabled only garbled versions. What happened was that Lord Moray boasted of having "married an American girl in Paris," explaining: "Through the careful forethought of my mother-in-law, I can therefore get a divorce in Scotland or America!" From this the Noble Lord switched into totally irrelevant remarks about...
...slide last spring, that Recovery was over. What was feared then was that the combination of strikes, rising labor costs and higher commodity prices would make for slimmer profits. That fear was by no means without foundation but it was exaggerated, as usual, in the stock-market's behavior. Stock prices have regained on the average about two-thirds of all ground lost between March and June. And by last week enough corporations had reported earnings for the first half of 1937 to indicate clearly that Big Business was still profitable...
...Bishop Misbehaves was the play given last month by the high-school dramatic club at Saugus, Mass, (pop.: 15,000). What the townspeople of Saugus have been talking about ever since, however, is the behavior of the club's 25-year-old coach, honey-haired English Teacher Isabelle Hallin. An experienced summer trouper who spent three seasons with the Garrick Players at Kennebunkport, Me., Saugus-bred Miss Hallin wears attractive, form-fitting dresses, makes adroit use of cosmetics. Moreover, six Bishop rehearsals had been held in the cellar of her home. Were cigarets served? Cocktails? What happened...