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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argued that the decision courageously upholds freedom-of-contract. But many are inclined to condemn the Court for " upholding the freedom to starve...
...Pitney occasionally, joined the liberal group. The appointment of Chief Justice Taft in place of Chief Justice White tended to liberalize the court, for, while he has upheld the injunction in labor disputes, he has also upheld emergency rent laws, which his predecessor considered an infringement on liberty of contract. But the retirement of Justices Day, Pitney and Clarke deprived the court of one announced liberal, and two associates who often joined him in bringing about a liberal decision. Of their successors, Justices Sutherland and Butler appear to be almost reactionary, and there is no indication that Justice Sanford holds...
Venezuela. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey notified the British Controlled Oil Fields Company, Limited, that they are prepared to carry out their contract with them for the development of the eastern division of the Buchivacoa oil fields in Venezuela...
...decision of the court delivered by Justice Sutherland held that the District of Columbia's Minimum Wage Law was a price fixing act and as such an abridgment of the right of contract...
...first isolated several years ago by the late Jokichi Takamine, and has been used for various purposes by physicians, but has never before been injected directly into the heart, except in the case of a stillborn baby recently chronicled in TIME. The effect of the treatment is to contract the blood vessels, especially in the limbs, increase the blood pressure and stimulate the heart. It could not, of course, be used to restore a patient who had died from a long, wasting disease, but in cases of violent shock where death has ensued because of a rush of blood from...