Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal for farmers against the cold marble of the Constitution. Seldom, however, has the Court had so many friends as went to its aid. Friends of the Court included the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Mountain States Beet Growers' Marketing Association, the National Beet Growers' Association offering briefs in defense of AAA. Hygrade Food Products, National Biscuit, P. Lorillard turned up as "friends'' in the person of John W. Davis (and associates) who offered a brief against AAA. These briefs were concerned with two tests of the AAAct which taxes processors to raise money...
...were running about 99% for Labor, 70% for Industry. Unemployment and taxation, he thought, would be the chief subjects of discussion. Coordinator Berry was primed for trouble when he stood up before 2,400 delegates in Washington's Federal Auditorium this week to launch his party. After a brief speech he declared the meeting adjourned for commencement of group conferences. Up jumped one A. P. Haake, secretary of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers, to demand a hearing for those opposed to Government interference with Business...
...miles per hour, the storm is likely to be short and light. "This larger proportion for the lesser storms is to be expected," says Professor Brooks, "since fast air-currents usually go with fast-moving storms, which would not yield such a quantity of snow in their brief stay as the slow-moving ones would...
Miss Millicent Thomas last night lectured to the Society for the Abolition of country Government. Her lecture was brief. It dealt with the New Deal. She called it a raw deal...
Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Phillips Brooks, the regular morning prayers today in Appleton Chapel will be devoted as a brief memorial...