Word: dreds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noteworthy fact about the swap: in their new setting in the Supreme Court room, Carpenter's emancipators looked directly across the room at the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who handed down the anti-Negro Dred Scott decision...
...general welfare. Mr. Jackson's score card is damaging to the Court's record, for he shows convincingly that time has never once vindicated the Court in any major conflict with the representative branches on any question of social or economic policy. "Its judgment in the Dred Scott case was overruled by war. Its judgment that the currency that preserved the Union could not be made legal tender was overruled by Grant's selection of an additional Justice. Its judgment invalidating the income tax was overruled by the 16th Amendment. Its judgments repressing labor and social legislation...
...development of high-performance pursuit types, Sir Kingsley could, and did, justifiably take pride - a pride which he showed last week in the somewhat extravagant statement that he would pit a hun dred Spitfires or Hurricanes against a much larger number of German counterparts, which would mean Messerschmitt Me. 109s, or Heinkel He. 1125. For Hurricanes and Spitfires have been vastly improved in performance (principally by replacement of antiquated wooden propellers by American-type, constant-speed metal props). And the Spitfire, traditionally nimble in dogfight, has been stepped up to close to 400 miles an hour in top speed...
...Court. Andrew Jackson was one. "John Marshall has made his decision," he bellowed when the Court made Indians Government wards, "now let him enforce it!" Abraham Lincoln, whose election was due in no small part to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's pro-slavery decision against old Dred Scott, ordered an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney. U. S. Grant packed the Court, got a 4-3 unfavorable decision reversed...