Word: conformity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Roberts for the majority: "It is sometimes said that the Court assumes a power to overrule or control the action of the people's representatives. This is a misconception. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, ordained and established by the people. All legislation must conform to the principles it lays down. When an Act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate the judicial branch of the Government has only one duty-to lay the article of the Constitution which is invoked beside the statute which is challenged...
...allowed to inspect these same buildings and compel obedience to local laws against fire hazards. Informed of this at his press conference next day, the President declared that Government edifices certainly should conform to fire laws. Then a newshawk pointed out that the entrance door of his own Executive Offices broke the laws by opening inward...
...your opinion," asked Chairman Harrison, "do the provisions of the House Bill conform to the President's suggestions?" Secretary Morgenthau reflected, finally replied: "You place me in a very embarrassing position when you ask me about a bill already introduced in the House...
Ginger, Jane Withers' first starring picture, is uncomplicated enough to conform to the limited rules laid down for child heroines denied the privilege of passion. It details the education of an urchin. Phase No. 1 displays her as a tenement scamp named Ginger, haphazardly raised by a bibbing old foster uncle (0. P. Heg-gie). In the role of brat, she stones windows, pastes neighborhood friends with fruit, eludes policemen by sliding gaily down a coal chute, fabricates glibly and frequently...
...uses for which the Seal, even if it were legal, would be inappropriate, is one that may well commend itself to the students and the Alumni of the University. It is to be hoped that with the exhaustion within a year of the stocks of merchandise that do not conform to the new regulations, both the sentimental and the commercial interests involved will welcome the new dispensation. Here is an incentive to artistic invention which may well appeal to available talent. Jerome D. Greene, Secretary to the Corporation...