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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution for delay in the reforms which the mass of the American people demand. . . . I ask that the American people rejoice in the wisdom of their Constitution. ... I ask that they give their fealty to the Constitution itself and not to its misinterpreters. . . . For us, the Constitution is a common bond, without bitterness, for those who see America as Lincoln saw it-the last, best hope of earth.' So we revere it, not because it is old but because it is ever...
...Roosevelt chose Hugo Black as the man best fitted to fill the one vacancy on the Supreme Court the Department of Justice went carefully over a list of some 60 possible appointees. That not one of the President's advisers had uncovered a bit of information that was common gossip or had passed it on to the President, seemed to be the shocking significance of the President's statement. It was on this point that the President's ablest critics blamed the President. One- time NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson, who currently flays the New Deal as energetically...
...repeated affirmation ..." declared Portugal, ''of the principles advocated by the Secretary of State, the intellectual or sentimental adhesion of many to the said principles, their inclusion in many treaties between nations or in a document of greater scope aiming at defining the rules of life common to all States, will have, we believe, the effect of a certain moral pressure, but will produce rather limited practical action. We would be mistaken if we were to expect important results therefrom...
Chimes of bells are limited to simple hymns and folk tunes, or unmelodic "change ringing" which is fairly common in the U. S.† The musical literature of the carillon is larger, although it, too, has its limitations. One of these is that each bell has four or more separate "partials" or overtones in addition to its fundamental note, and when these are not all in tune with each other as well as with those of other bells, a prodigious jangling results. Thus a carillonneur must often rearrange a composition to allow for discords in his family of bells. Nevertheless...
...price war next year produced a deficit again, but since then Union has enjoyed steady profits. However, to take the drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily at its 1932 low of $5.50. In January 1934 they had control and headed south to Savannah, Ga. to build one of the world's biggest paper plants...