Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continuing our inquiry, it is natural to ask what influence the legislature is to have in determining the existence of an emergency. In the well-known case of Block v. Hirsh (256 U.S., 135, 1921), the Court said that "a declaration of a legislature concerning public conditions that of necessity and duty it must know is entitled at least to great respect." But this statement furnishes us with no very definite rule for weighing the importance of the opinion of the legislature. It should be added, however, that the Court has refused to sustain a law on the ground that...
Punctually at 10:30 a. m. the Sublime Emperor handed to the Grand Chamberlain a block of white wood. Upon it His Majesty had painted with delicate brush strokes the name considered most auspicious by the Chief Ritualist...
Name in hand, the Grand Chamberlain passed into the bedchamber of Empress Nagako and exhibited it to her. He then laid the block of wood reverently in the Crown Prince's crib...
...Eastview, N. Y. Keeper Arthur W. Trevitt of the Westchester County penitentiary traced the smell of liquor to the main cell block, found five gallons of homemade liquor fermenting in a fire extinguisher...
...Lowell's first letter complained that the code, instead of checking block booking, gave it "a certain legal sanction." When General Johnson reminded him that the code does permit exhibitors to cancel up to 10% of the blocks of films which they are forced to buy from major producers if they want any films at all, Dr. Lowell wrote back...