Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends and critics have been intently watching the Supreme Court for any change in its temper, any shift in its alignment. The Hughes appointment last year focused the Supreme Court in the Senate as an issue of "human rights" v. "property rights" (TIME, Feb. 17, 1930 et seq.). Justices Brandeis, Holmes and Stone, dissenters all, were then cited as the court's Liberal minority upholding "human rights." Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler were grouped as the Conservative majority. Insurgent Senators flayed Nominee Hughes as a reactionary, a "corporation lawyer" who would ally himself with the court...
...President in Feldmarschal's uniform and spiked helmet, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius...
...Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber of California may operate a cancer research laboratory at Huntington, L. I., but they may treat no patients there with their adrenal cortex extract (TIME, May 25 et ante). So decreed the New York Board of Social Welfare last week. The Californians consider themselves only temporarily frustrated. They may take their application to New York courts for judicial review, with all protagonists under oath. Mrs. Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, who gave them her Long Island estate, was fretting last week for an appeal to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was sailing home from...
...Wisehart.of American Magazine obtained from the local Chamber of Commerce a list of typical corporations, cut it up, drew one from a hat. It was Pitman-Moore Co. To the officers of Pitman-Moore Co. he gave the definition adduced from the replies of the Smiths, Joneses, Browns, et al. They replied: "That's Brownie, our sales manager...
...following program under the direction of Arthur Fiedler will be presented at the Pops tonight beginning at 8.30 o'clock. 1. Sambre et Heuse March Ganne 2. Euryanthe Overture Weber 3. H. Symphony, allegretto schetzando Beethoven 4. Swan Lake, Suite Intermission Tchaikowsky 5. Pacific 2-3-1, Symphonic movement Honegger 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. First Hungarian Rhapsody Intermission Liszt 8. Roses from the South, waltz Strauss 9. Humoresque Dvorak 10. Aragonaise, from the "Cid" Massenet