Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tight spot. Many an observer regarded the present make-up of the Supreme Court as fortunate, for today, when the U. S. is swayed by a politically powerful liberal movement, the Court is dominated neither by conservatives who would block all attempts at change, nor by liberals who would put no check on hasty attempts to alter the face of government. Yet this well-balanced court is in a tight spot. A majority may believe that it would be less serious for the U. S. to face the economic upset caused by upholding the gold clauses than to establish...
...west and north!" he cried. "Her future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa. The vast resources of Asia must be valorized, and Africa must be brought within the orbit of civilization. . . . We demand that the nations which have already arrived in Africa do not block at every step Italian expansion...
...University of Chicago professors lifted their eyes from current strife for a glimpse at the future. "Planning in a democracy," declared venerable Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, "is a co-operative enterprise, requiring widespread sympathy and support, beyond party and beyond region. Business can block it; labor, agriculture, the middle class, can block it. But the danger then is that we drift away from planning, not into a blissful heaven of politics and economics, to live forever with golden harps, but to a point where force mounts the throne and writes a plan in blood and steel...
...home stretch, he praised Tasmanian woodsmen for sawing through a 6 ft. 4 in. block of wood in 31 sec., beamed at Sydney's effort to outdo Melbourne's hospitality with a portrait of himself in fireworks 70 ft. high, and helped New South Walesmen round up 300 kangaroos...
...story revolves about the inheritance of a sum of $77,000,000 to which Eddie is the rightful heir. The intrigue comes through the efforts of a couple of grafters (Ethel Merman and Warren Hymer), a scheming Virginia colonel (Burton Churchill) and an Egyptian potentate (Jesse Block) to do our hero out of the legacy. Eddie is pushed off the deck of a transatlantic liner, dangled over a steaming cauldron of oil and generally pushed around, but in the end he flies accidentally from Egypt to New York with the treasure clutched in his arms and all the city...