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...embodied a clause upholding such power. I think John Marshall, at the Convention of Virginia, said the power of the Supreme Court should prevail over that of Congress in constitutionality issues wherein there was no reasonable doubt. I think James Madison's record and minutes of the Philadelphia confab that created the Constitution show that this power was fully discussed and intentionally embodied into the Constitution (also the power to ignore the opinions of the high court when Congress deemed it in the general welfare so to do). I think Jefferson was in the "overwhelming minority" of big shots...
...lifelong struggle against the evils of the saloon," he says: "This began while a freshman in college." His autobiography dwells most fondly on his behind-the-scenes activities. He relates the inside story of 14 national Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between one faction and another, wrote the first draft of political platforms (usually discarded), delivered statements...
...conference will discuss "Problems of the United States Government," while the Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth confab will discuss "Making Democracy Work...
Particularly in Freshmen, there is a tendency to hold any disciplinary center in awe. Whether this is the result of grim lessons in the high school principal's office, or the natural human aversion to a confab with the "boss" matters not; the awe is a fact, and many men in this University shiver at any official summons. Such an attitude is incorrect. Student tuition and alumni endowment pay dean's salaries, and their proper duties are corrective and advisory rather than disciplinary. Moreover, to keep in touch with student trends and sentiments, deans must keep in contact with their...
...transatlantic, transpacific and far eastern navigation companies met last week in Atlantic City's Hotel Claridge. Almost unmentioned by the Press and unannounced by the Boardwalk City's convention bureau, the meeting was blandly described by shippers as a "routine conference." After two days' quiet confab delegates as quietly departed for their home ports in London, New York and on the Pacific coast...