Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to a widespread Washington rumor, the laboratories have developed no super-machine for snooping which may be plugged into a light socket. Because the U. S. generally considers wiretapping unsporting, regardless of the purpose, the Bureau uses this very difficult means of detection only on the specific orders of Director Hoover and then only under life-&-death circumstances...
...powers;* 2) having assumed illegal legislative power, Congress had then improperly delegated it to the Secretary of Agriculture. "If Congress," warned the Court, "can take over the control of any intrastate business by a declaration of an economic emergency and a public interest in its regulation, it would be difficult to define the limits of the powers of Congress or to foretell the future limitations of local self-government." Though AAA officials declared the AAAmendments pending in the Senate last week (see p. 12) would create virtually a new AAA requiring a new court test, Attorney General Cummings promised...
Civilized entertainment. Accent on Youth should please practically every class of U. S. cinema-seers except students or graduates of Princeton University. Good shot: Marshall's butler (Ernest Cossart) perfectly executing three difficult billiard shots which are photographed with out any faking...
...said President Tew, to take care of Goodrich's expanding sales, which jumped from $74,000,000 in 1932 to $103,000,000 last year. "The management," he concluded, ''feels that this proposed financing is so obviously in the interest of the stockholders, that it is difficult to believe that any stockholder, acting solely in his interest as such, would object...
...make it easy for the honest. He has stumped the land proclaiming his credo: "No honest business need fear the SEC." He has been not only a good policeman, but also a polite one, insisting that all SEC subordinates be courteous and cooperative. Doing business is infinitely more difficult than before the New Deal but bankers now know that it can be done...