Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upheld (5-to-4) the Government's right to cancel the gold clauses in all contracts, although unanimously condemning the ethics of the Government's repudiating its own contracts (TIME...
...next day and on a train for London, dictating to worried aides. He seemed fit, though tired, when Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon met him at the station. Two days later the Lord Privy Seal's doctors told him he was suffering from serious heart strain, made him cancel all engagements for six weeks. With pert and pretty Mrs. Eden hovering at his bedside, Captain Eden had the rare honor of a sickroom visit from the Prime "Minister who afterwards told reporters, "I am distressed beyond measure, both on private and public grounds...
...privately owned. However, according to the original concession, Eagle had the right to import supplies duty free. President Assheton was prepared last week to fight off any attempt to collect back duties on those imports. Nonetheless, the decree frightened every foreign businessman in Mexico, for, if the Government can cancel Eagle's ironclad concession, what contracts can it not cancel...
Consequences. Such questions did not necessarily indicate that the Court will decide against the Government. In this case, however, they brought little or no direct answer from the Government except that Congress under the Constitution has power to regulate the value of money, hence has an implied power to cancel gold clauses. But consequences followed from the mere asking of questions...
...lovely way it would work out. "Ah, you cancel your subscription because we called Senator Umpah an incompetent blowhard; all right-two subscriptions will go out, each of which will be read by a large number of people...