Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶President Roosevelt gave a formal reception for the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Only four attended: Messrs. Hughes, Butler, Roberts, Stone. Very much on hand was Attorney General Cummings, sitting on a table, swinging his legs, laughing, chatting in high good humor to show that he was...
If it did nothing else, the Old Deal provided the New Deal with a magnificent set of government buildings in Washington. Last June Postmaster General Farley moved into his monumental new Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue and found it good. Last October Attorney General Cummings moved into his monumental...
¶ Attorney General Cummings, fearful that the case was going against him, made an unscheduled second argument in which he praised abrogation of the gold clauses as a piece of great and well-considered statesmanship, but offered no new arguments to show that the Government's action was legal...
¶ The price of the Government's gold bonds was bid up in heavy trading. Liberty 3½s reached 105.3, a record high. The stocks of railroads and other corporations which might have to pay $1,690 on $1,000 bonds slumped heavily. Trust companies feared they might...
Tight spot. Many an observer regarded the present make-up of the Supreme Court as fortunate, for today, when the U. S. is swayed by a politically powerful liberal movement, the Court is dominated neither by conservatives who would block all attempts at change, nor by liberals who would put...