Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, your reporter erred in "Townsend Test" article when he states: "Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee...
Chelan is situated at the outlet of Lake Chelan, about four miles west of Columbia River and about 90 miles (air line) southwest of Grand Coulee Dam, is about 1,200 feet above sea level. The general description your reporter gave of this beautiful eastern Washington pleasure resort and diversified farming district will prove very distasteful to many loyal Washingtonians who are aware of the regal beauties and productive resources abounding in Lake Chelan district (not in "broad Chelan Valley," because there is no valley in the district that has a width of more than 4 miles...
...name any of his dinner guests to the Federal bench, but one judicial nomination he did make. He named William Henry Hastie, 32, to be Federal judge in the Virgin Islands. While there are or have been Negro municipal judges in Chicago, New York City and the District of Columbia, no Negro has ever before sat on the Federal bench. No mere political gesture to colored constituents was this appointment, however, for William Hastie, Knoxville born, is rated one of the ablest Negro lawyers in the U. S. He was graduated from Amherst magna cum laude, went to Harvard...
When the Court reassembled in 1803, the piddling suit of a man named Marbury, to secure a commission as District of Columbia justice of the peace which Secretary of State Madison refused to deliver to him, gave Chief Justice Marshall a chance to set his Federalist stamp on U. S. history. For the first time he asserted the right of the Supreme Court to nullify Acts of Congress as "unconstitutional." Thomas Jefferson, Marshall's distant cousin and lifelong political foe, never acknowledged that claim. If it were correct, he declared in the first great anti-Supreme Court blast, "then...
...titillated press soon found out, of course, that Charles Evans Hughes had said it in a lecture delivered at Columbia University in 1930. Other quotations from that lecture: "I agree that the importance in the Supreme Court of avoiding the risk of having judges who are unable properly to do their work and yet insist on remaining on the bench, is too great to permit chances to be taken...