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Word: cummingses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the opinion of many a Washington newshawk last week the New Deal lost one of its ablest pressagents when Henry West Suydam, Special Executive Assistant to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, resigned to write political articles and editorials for the Newark News. A onetime registered Republican, Henry Suydam joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Suydam to Newark | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Among the many arguments advanced in favor of the President's plan for reorganization of the Supreme Court, the question of speed is a favorite one among such men as Homer Cummings and James Farley. Taking a pious and sanctimonious attitude, these gentlemen contend that there is such a crying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SLIPPERY WAY | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

Such a line of reasoning as this appears pitifully inadequate to those who have observed and studied the constitutional history of the United States. There has never been a time in the development of our country when the need for new laws which had already been declared illegal was so...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SLIPPERY WAY | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

Impulsive and dogmatic, Farley and Cummings find the traditional system of checks and balances a nuisance, and as such they are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their purpose. Blind to the normal way of governmental procedure, they are perfectly willing to give unprecedented powers to a Chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SLIPPERY WAY | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

Besides Cummings, officers are Arthur W. Nelson '38, vice-president, James K. Davis, secretary, and Clarence D. Martin, Jr. '39, treasurer. All four officers were members of last year's New England champions.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIRPLANE MEN GATHER TOMORROW, FIRST TIME | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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