Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessmen knew it, Congress knew it, the Brain Trust knew it, Mr. Homer Stille Cummings knew it: The Justices of the Supreme Court would do their duty as they saw it. Yet somehow nearly everyone had overlooked the obvious fact that the nine potent, grave and reverend judges would first...
In upholding the cancellation of the gold clauses the sleek attorneys of the railroads joined with the Government. The Government's lawyerlike brief was signed by two of its bright young men, Paul A. Freund, onetime secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis, and John G. Laylin, assistant to General Counsel...
Attorney General Cummings listened to these opening arguments, placidly chewing gum, tobacco, paper or whatnot. After Frederick H. Wood, in sonorous periods, had launched B. & O.'s counterattack, Mr. Cummings took the stand. He argued little about the law, less about economics, a great deal about horrendous social consequences...
Questions. A tradition of the Supreme Court is that the Attorney General shall not be interrupted in his argument by questions from the bench. Therefore the real excitement did not begin until Mr. Cummings had finished his stump speech. Then the Justices who had asked only a few questions of...
Looks like the nine old men have got the New Dealers on the run. Listen to Attorney-General Cummings, talk to the Court: "We do not suggest that it was with any glad heart that we intervened in any contractual obligations. It was done only as a matter of supreme...