Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historical experience shows without cavil that this very voice of authority can turn back on the well-intentioned reformers who use it like a boomerang. In any society where liberties are crumbling away, the tendency to accomplish "reforms" by administrative fiat rather than by judicial hearings is one of the first signs of weakness. There is nothing in New York law or tradition that sanctions the practice of combining judge and jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority...
...nose dive, we would have a new bank holiday-or else. The assets of banks, trusts and insurance companies are loaded with them. The Government would almost certainly be forced to make them redeemable at par-in paper money-the ultimate spilling of the beans. The President is no fiat money man. That leaves only reduced spending. But isn't that political ruin? Is this the end of the rope...
Therefore, Dean Smith proposed, let the President have a chance to have his way, but by national referendum, not legislative fiat. The President wanted to rejuvenate the present Court, provide for a constant infusion of new blood into it. Then let an amendment be offered providing for compulsory retirement of justices at, say, 75. If anyone objected that the Court would still be packed on retirement of five justices at once.* let present justices be retired gradually, according to seniority. President Roosevelt argued that an amendment could easily be blocked by reactionaries in only 13 States. Scored Dean Smith...
...abject House, for once, baulked at initialing the plan. The most ringing denunciation came from the Senate, where Senator Vandenburg introduced masses of damaging testimony, demanded and received the support of his colleagues in casting out the measure implementing the project, which had already been started by presidential fiat...
Haydn's Symphony in B fiat major No. 102 is the first number. Composed during the winter of 1794-95 while Haydn was on his second visit to London, the symphony exhibits both a wealth of eighteenth century charm and a real developed orchestration. It is not without a certain justification that with such a work as this to his credit, Haydn is often known as the father of the symphony...