Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Technically this would not provide a new means of amending the Constitution, but practically it would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected, possibly in a campaign where some other issue is paramount. Said he: "I am confirmed in this view by the spectacle of American liberals, so bent upon the attainment of their immediate ends that they are prepared to establish a system of government in which all liberty and all democracy in America would...
...Supreme Court but the chill of that day seemed to stick in his bones. When 20 years later he was again nominated for the Supreme Court-the second man twice appointed to it*-he was quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called "The Human Icicle" and "The Animated Feather Duster." He had served as Secretary of State to the unfortunate Mr. Harding and the curt Mr. Coolidge, had achieved a genuine-diplomatic triumph-the 5-5-3 naval limitation treaty which for over...
Seldom is the U. S. religious scene without a drive or campaign of some sort. Currently prelates and publicists of the Roman Catholic Church are engaged in telling the faithful how gravely they are endangered by Communism. An Episcopal group led by Bishop Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio is attempting to deepen the spiritual life of the Church through a Forward Movement. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is trying to do like wise and to liquidate a $385,000 mission ary debt through a Bishop's Crusade, to which the most notable response to date has come from...
Among the state and nation-wide organizations sponsoring the campaign for repeal of the bill are the Massachusetts Progressive Committee, the National Student Federation of America, the American Student Union, the Student Christian Association, the American Federation of Teachers, the Society for Freedom in Teaching, and the American Federation of Labor...
...lawyer of distinction, William L. Ransom brings to the Conference wide knowledge of public utility law and of the course of legal progress and education. Graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1905, he was identified with the Presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and then took up various duties with the New York Public Service Commission. In 1917 Ransom was Republican and Fusion candidate for the position of District Attorney of New York...