Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to draw a red herring across the cowardly, contemptible and unjust attack that you have made and published against a great race so gloriously represented by our governor?" reported Candidate LaGuardia. "Answer that, Mr. McKee. and think twice before you send me another telegram." An article McKee wrote for Catholic World in 1915 which slurred the character of the average Jewish student in New York's schools, was thus added as fuel to the leaping fires of altercation...
...that "extreme instrument" in the Roosevelt tool bag, the Securities Act, Sir Josiah chuckled: "They designed it to protect investors but in their enthusiasm Congress so framed it as to make it impossible to draw up a prospectus so as to raise money...
...order. They have trained great lawyers, and great legal theorists, and it was upon this that much of the pious twittering of the early post-war prophecies was based. But one of the greatest of these apostles of the rule of law, the British Dicey, was very careful to draw its circle so that international law was excluded, excluded as an inhabitant of that legal periphery more closely related to public ethics than to law. Anyone who has examined, with whatever percipience, the history of the League must commend Dicey's distinction as well drawn. For the kind of legal...
...mounts to outfit their teams, they select crack players for their sides. Thus last week, Greentree had reached the final by beating C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney's Westburys and Winston Guest's Templetons, who won the title last year. The Auroras, with a bye in the draw, had ridden over Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford's Hurricanes...
...interests of historical accuracy it is only fair to recall that the author falls into the easy error of ridiculing the Articles of Confederation, that he fails to draw enough attention to the political sagacity of Jackson's bank veto, and that he assumes, without proof, that the rise of capitalism and its shelter, the fourteenth amendment, were carefully prearranged. But these are minor points. Mr. Agar set out to give John Citizen an understanding of his government's position today. He has succeeded admirably...