Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes twirked his sweeping cavalry mustache, drawled to his chubby Irish protege, Tommy Corcoran...
...Pierce Butler, who died one day last week, just before dawn. With this 220-lb., 6-foot-2-inch monolith died the last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the Supreme Court bench and a fifth to take Pierce Butler's place, snowy-whiskered Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes will no longer control the balance of power...
...painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
...public he was only a name until he wrote one of his first Supreme Court decisions-the Panhandle Oil Co. case. His decision: the Panhandle Oil Co. need not pay a Mississippi State gas tax on sales made to the U. S. Coast Guard, because the company's part in such sales made it a "Federal instrumentality" and thus it could not be taxed...
...which are being developed with the cooperation of the faculty counsellors of President Conant's program for extra-curricular study of American civilization, will include the following subjects: meaning of the westward movement; agricultural conservation; problem of immigration and foreign minorities; history of trade unionism; history of the Supreme Court; changing concepts of American destiny; economic integration of America; American idealism and religions; history of the theatre; and public health...