Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What will Justice Roberts say when he Jays the proposed statute alongside of the appropriate article of the Constitution to see if the former squares with the latter? He may retreat from the glorious standard set in the AAA decision but we can confidently expect from Justice McReynolds a blistering restatement of his dissent in the Gold Clause cases: "As for the Constitution it is not too much to say that it is gone." And this will be a merited rebuke for the New York Herald Tribune...
Vested with more authority than he has ever held before, given a mighty club over factionalists who a week previously had hoped to ease him out, confident Mr. Martin promptly began to squelch insubordinate subordinates, to assure automakers that neither they nor rambunctious unionists should expect to get away with anything. Meantime he had become deeper in Mr. Lewis' debt than any other big man in the labor movement...
...with arms and protect her interests in Latin America, but the same doctrine also carries an implied obligation that the U. S. must keep Latin Americans from doing anything that might be considered provocative by Europeans. Thus if Honduras should order every Lithuanian within its borders decapitated, Lithuania would expect, while keeping the Lithuanian Navy at home, that the U. S. Navy & Marines would avert this outrage...
President Roosevelt promptly remarked that he was glad to hear of this olive branch and Bill Douglas, making his first comment since the Supreme Court upheld the registration provision of the Holding Company Act last month, declared in Electrical World: "We do not expect every utility system to present us immediately with a revised map showing revamped, integrated systems. Nor do we propose to draw such a map. ... the statute is not a 'death sentence.' On the contrary it holds the promise of a long life and a happy one. It substitutes order for chaos. ... We are ready...
...gold fields at approximately ten shillings a month. For the recruiter, the bounty is ?20 a head for boys willing to indenture themselves for three years. Flynn saw to it that most of his boys signed up for three years. He did it with biscuits, teaching the boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When the examining magistrate, required by island law to pass on all indentures, popped the important question, Flynn would gravely hold up three interrogating fingers, was invariably rewarded with almost hysterical assent. When his conscience hurts...