Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed the petition was also a onetime President of the U. S.- William Howard Taft. When Brandeis was finally confirmed and when William Howard Taft followed him to the bench as Chief Justice...
...satisfactorily settling a dispute by armed force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis was "digging in at Brussels," prepared to stay as long as President Roosevelt thinks necessary...
...team the backfield showed a quartet composed of Chief Boston, Bob Stuart, Ben Smith, and Vernon Struck. Stuart was throwing passes with his old abandon and looked as fit as ever. If he were able to get into the Yale game for any appreciable amount, he would be sure to furnish the spark and drive that is supposed to be the reason for the team's bogging down when they reach the pay distance...
George Roberts was excused for a cold. Torbert Macdonald did not appear yesterday but will be back tomorrow and it is expected that he will be fit for anything...
...Green joined Russ Allen on the doctor's list, also with a leg injury, and he will be benched with his captain this Saturday. It is hoped that they will both be able to face the Elis. Macdonald and Struck have been pronounced physically fit, but they were given the day off before starting on the final two weeks push...