Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Roberts, having his biggest day in court since he switched over to the liberal bloc in 1937, read yet another opinion of No. 1 significance. Three years ago it fell to him to knock out the New Deal's first AAA, partly on the ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production...
...will deny them the success of their tactics. For Harvard has accepted this cancer as a part of itself, and the tutoring schools have become integrated with the system which exists here. The moral attitude toward them has so hardened that a majority of students fell ethically justified in using them. Harvard's collective conscience has almost completely disappeared in this respect; students regularly cheat and feel no qualms about so doing. Parents condone: one tutor recently boasted that his position was impregnable since he tutored the sons of the Corporation. And, more than this, the University administration and Faculty...
...Patterson . . . found only one man . . . to confront him, he aimed a terrific blow at that individual; but to his great surprise this was readily parried, and the counter blow, à la Yankee Sullivan, fell upon his left eye with such force, that, followed by a second, the desperado was thrown heavily into the street...
...resigned from Australia's Labor Cabinet, when inflation and debt repudiation, which he thought dishonest, were proposed as the way out of Australia's financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...
...assets of $46,000,000, sales of $27,400,000. In 1932 sales collapsed to $4,400,000 and the deficit amounted to $4,164,974.61. But by thriftily plowing back its earnings, Oliver finally emerged from debt last October after a 1937 profit of $2,182,763.36 (it fell...