Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken as modified by the principles of political science." To buttress his views Judge Clark showered his opinion with nonlegal quotations from Confucius, Cicero, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Lord Bryce, Justice Holmes, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Montesquieu, William Howard Taft, Congressman Luce, Claude Bowers, Abbott Lawrence Lowell et al. He quoted a feeble joke from the Georgia Supreme Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether or not it was good law was another matter. The Judge. Behind the decision was a tall, angular, sandy-haired man of 39 who has the distinction of being...
...trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating them, selling stock in the merger at four or five...
...Hoover's North Carolina appointments. When he tried to reward that State for its 1928 vote by elevating Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte to the U. S. Supreme Court, the Senate tore his nominee to bits, raised unwelcome racial and labor issues, refused confirmation (TIME, March 31 et seq.). Last week it seemed likely that the outcome of the President's second attempt to do the Old North State a political favor would be much the same. Observers began to wonder who was responsible for the White House's political advice on North Carolina...
Menachem Ussishkin, mighty namesake of an evil King of Israel, reached the U. S. last week from Palestine. The purpose of his visit is to bolster the rage of U. S. Jews against Great Britain's recent opposition to further Jewish colonization of Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.), and to raise money for the Jewish National Fund of which he is world president. He is a short, powerfully built, deter mined man aged 63, a Russian-born engineer. He has lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call...
...scholarly reading of the happy Spring Symphony written by Schumann soon after his marriage to rigid .Clara Wieck. Schumann's Symphony No. 2 by the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Hans Pfitzner (Brunswick, $7.50)-Schumann in a graver, more classic mood capably interpreted. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe by Philippe Gaubert and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $4)-An excellent performance of the symphonic suite commissioned by the late Serge Diaghilev for his Russian Ballet. The originality and finish which marked even Ravel's earliest work is shown in this month's release of his Menuet Antique...