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While on the subject of football, it's a wonder that some kindhearted H.A.A. official wouldn't contribute about two feet of elastic for the legs of Eddie Casey's pants. He never rolls them up and he certainly looks like pictures of a star halfback of 1900.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So the Story Goes . . . | 4/18/1934 | See Source »

The Constitution is certainly elastic in the sense that the power of government over the individual is supreme, but it is also to be noted that the Supreme Court of the United States firmly upholds he dual sovereignty idea which was the basic concept of the Constitution as written by...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/7/1934 | See Source »

The same 5-4 lineup in the Supreme Court which supported the government in the Minnesota mortgage moratorium has given its approval to the new statute for price fixing in the milk industry. It is impossible to read Justice Roberts' majority opinion, with its weighty talk of the due process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/6/1934 | See Source »

Aftermath of pugnacious Paraguay's five-year war with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, ending in 1870, was a squabble with Argentina over her western boundary. The entire dispute was laid at the elastic-sided boots of President Hayes, who looked solemnly at many maps, listened to many arguments and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY: White House, 1878 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

The President said nothing publicly but what he had on his mind was no secret: money. It was known that he had on his desk an opinion from Attorney General Cummings on the Treasury's right to take over the Federal Reserve System's gold holdings. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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