Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the dilly-dallying and side-stepping of Constitutional issues now filling the current newspapers, it is a pleasant relief to find a little direct action by the members of the Law School in protest to President Roosevelt's judiciary evasion proposal. Their petition should serve as the touchstone for many more in all the Universities of the country. The Administration should be made aware that an ominous portion of his New Deal supporters are unconditionally opposed to any legal acrobatics dealing with the stability of the Supreme Court under the Constitution as it now exists...
...School's example of direct action should find its counterpart in the national sphere in the form of a proposal to determine the status of judicial review by constitutional amendment. From the Administration's viewpoint, there could be no more propitious time to carry out their reform constitutionally by amendment. Sticking by the letter of the law and not the spirit, as President Roosevelt expects to do through a sly application of his appointive power, is obviously as great a crime as any judgment the Supreme Court could possibly hand down. The crowning example of irony, however, rests...
What this country needs, to use a little political jargon, is direct action. The Law School has set a laudable precedent. A question of such magnitude should be submitted, according to the regular amending process, to the source of all power in a democracy--the people...
...would be a happy choice, and Professor Sorokin could supply the running comment. There is danger in allowing professionalism to capture the University too completely. The whole program should be run as an amateur hour. Listeners in each city could telephone their choices to a central office or telegraph direct to Cambridge. Each week's winner should get a free trip to New York and a three day contract at the Radio City Music Hall. President Conant should be on hand at all times to give the gong...
...Fishbein, writing "s chairman of the American Medical Association's powerfully censorious Committee on Foods as well as editor of the A. M. A.'s Journal, scolded the Californians as indecent exaggerators. Declared Dr. Fishbein: "All . . . varieties of the orange are excellent sources of vitamin C. To direct attention to slight differences in vitamin C content with the view of capitalizing them is both misleading and contrary to the interests of the public. Such unfortunate publicity tends to defeat the efforts of nutritionists and physicians to educate the public about the importance of the various fruits and other...