Word: consulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After each case has been publicly presented, each of the Justices masters the printed record and arguments; the Justices consult the oracles in the stillness of their various studies, or under the foliage of Rock Creek Park. The Oracles...
...preserved its liberty of action by supporting a one-party Cabinet; thus each held the Government in the hollow of its hand. M. Briand sought to end this state of affairs by forming a coalition Cabinet. The Unified Socialists decided that before giving a yea or nay they must consult their National Council. It was presumed, however, that if the Unified Socialists refused to join the Cabinet, M. Briand would move to the Right and form a Government that would seem sure to pass muster with the Senate...
...announcement was made of the lengthening of the Easter Vacation and Dean McClenahan was briefly quoted to that effect. Just to show that it was only a boyish prank, the closing paragraph said: "If any of our readers wish any further information, they are earnestly requested to consult their calendars...
Evidences of public disapproval of the so-called "third degree" multiply. In Vermont, Governor Billings has just signed a bill which provides that the "third degree" shall not be "administered" to a person suspected of having committed a crime until he has had an opportunity to consult counsel. It is further provided that a copy of this statute shall be placed in each cell of all penal institutions so that prisoners may be aware of their rights...
...when a surging multitude vociferously acclaimed him President of the Republic (he had then just succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor after the Imperial régime had fallen), he neither refused nor accepted, but passed the incident off with a statement that he must first consult the other leaders of the Social Democratic Party. It was a characteristic attitude and an attitude that he unswervingly followed throughout his tenure of the Presidency. At that time and since, he might have made himself a dictator; and there were (and are) not a few who asserted that the republican...