Word: flipflop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remanding the case to District Court for further evidence. Chief Justice Hughes's majority opinion declared: "The main issue in this litigation is whether the rates as fixed by the commission's order are confiscatory." At what looked to him less like a decision than a flipflop of indecision, dissenting Justice Pierce Butler spoke a tart word: "Our decisions ought to be sufficiently definite and permanent to enable counsel usefully to advise clients...
...States' anti-price-cutting laws were not in conflict with the U. S. Constitution (TIME, Dec. 21). Since the Feld-Crawford Act was for all intents & purposes identical with these fair trade laws, New York's Court of Appeals could do nothing but gracefully perform a judicial flipflop. Last week...
...seat. Arrayed against him in the Republican primary are "Bob" Shuler (see above), flossy little Representative Joe Crail of Los Angeles and Tallant Tubbs, a rich, chubby young State Senator from San Francisco. Senator Shortridge lately deserted his President and his platform by declaring against the World Court. This flipflop won him favor with the Hearst Press, but cost him the friendly feeling of many a regular party leader. On Prohibition the Senator wooed the Wets with talk of Resubmission, then the Drys with a declaration against Repeal. Most likely beneficiary of these Shortridgean straddles is Mr. Tubbs who stands...
Last week chunky, affable Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania did a Dry-to-Wet flipflop. In 1930 he was elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...