Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...check on hasty attempts to alter the face of government. Yet this well-balanced court is in a tight spot. A majority may believe that it would be less serious for the U. S. to face the economic upset caused by upholding the gold clauses than to establish a precedent that may in future make all contracts into scraps of paper to be blown hither & thither by any political wind. But if the Court should decide to uphold the gold clauses, the reaction ot the country against the Court would be indeed serious. In the heat of partisanship a Constitutional...
Night before, in another of his series of broadcasts about his side of the case, Counsel Reilly had declared: "The defense will establish that Hauptmann had nothing to do with the crime and that it was conceived in the Lindbergh home itself, but not by any member of the family. We will show that the kidnapping was planned and executed by a gang of five persons. . . . Furthermore, the defense will prove that the child was carried from its nursery down the stairs of the house and out of a door of the house, rather than down the ladder. ... I have...
...Russian law. ... To them [the Russian policy holders] the Soviet Republic was no body of bandits, confiscating property, but an existing government, carrying out new theories of insurance. If the Russian people, under their Soviet form of government, determined to abolish all private insurance for their citizens and establish a system of social protection by the state, that was their affair, not ours...
...weakly Napoleon II striving to regain the position which his father held is admittedly sad but it's not great drama. In addition to the intrinsic weaknesses of the play must be added the consideration that a 1934 audience cannot be expected to sympathize with attempts to re-establish a reign of indiscriminate bloodshed, of imperial pomp and circumstance. It's not a good play and it's definitely not a timely effort...
...would come roaring in to put them all on Easy Street. In Richmond, Va., where he was visiting a son-in-law, David Graves George was planning at last to buy a tobacco farm. For eight years the withered old hillbilly had tried to establish himself as the author of "The Wreck of the Old 97," collect phonograph royalties from Victor Talking Machine Co. on that railroad ballad. Last week his case reached the nine black-robed judges of the U. S. Supreme Court...