Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voice of the Court First witness against the Court proposal was Senator Burton K. Wheeler who favors gaining liberal ends by a Constitutional Amendment. Of Franklin Roosevelt's short cut he declared: "If I wanted to destroy the President I could think of no better way than to pass this bill." But Senator Wheeler's own ideas were dwarfed in news by his presenting the official views of the Court, a letter from Chief Justice Hughes answering specific questions put by Mr. Wheeler. True to Supreme Court tradition the Chief Justice confined his discussion to questions of Court...
Whether or not it be true that, as Wheeler asserts, approval of the enlargement plan will destroy the President, his further contention that liberal principles will be frittered away by this stop-gap legislation is highly logical. That a liberal of such long-standing as Senator Wheeler stands by this opinion is helpful to more conservative opposition forces. Even this unlooked-for support is overshadowed by that of Justice Brandeis, however, and the marshalling of liberal opinion behind the well-reasoned stand of these men can make for a strong coalition against the President's paternalism...
Before the week was out Mr. Green admitted that he was considering calling a special convention (as authorized by a resolution adopted at the Federation's last meeting) to expel once and for all the rebel unions which had at last risen frankly to destroy...
...trying to destroy false gods that have been forced upon us in the museums." These sentiments are heartily seconded in Sanity in Art's ensuing pages by a number of press quotations from Music News, the Elkhart, Ind. Tribune, the Birming ham, N. Y. Press, followed by approving letters from Booth Tarkington, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Senator & Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis, and Mrs. H. G. Wotherspoon, president of the Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing...
...result of entering the political lists when the institution is not directly concerned, as it is in the oath law, is to focus the attention of the politicians on the universities, and it may engender an "eye for an eye" attitude that will do more than anything else to destroy their traditional freedom...