Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vitally impair the Court's usefulness. The Justices were not ignorant of these facts. But their job is to follow the law as they see it, not the election returns. For the convenience of the country, if not the Court, a majority of the Justices would doubtless be glad to uphold the abrogation of the gold clauses if they can do so without sacrificing what they regard as vital principles. Several ingenious compromises are, however, open to the Court. Example: By upholding Mr. Cummings' contention that private persons who wrote gold clauses were squatting on the public domain...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all students in the University at the President's house, 17 Quincy Street, Sunday afternoon, January 20th, between 4 and 6 o'clock...
...Aran grows potatoes, with the aid of seaweed. Fish also may be found in the sea as well as the oil of the shark, used to light his crude lamp. But the sea does not always yield its bounties without a struggle, sometimes so fierce that the Man is glad to return alive, without fish without even his boat which is dashed to pieces...
Looks like the nine old men have got the New Dealers on the run. Listen to Attorney-General Cummings, talk to the Court: "We do not suggest that it was with any glad heart that we intervened in any contractual obligations. It was done only as a matter of supreme necessity." He was referring, of course, to the repeal of the gold clause on contracts made previous to the repeal resolution. Although there is no specific clause in the Constitution which forbids Congress to impair the obligation of contract (Article one, section ten prohibits state governments...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all students in the University at the President's house, 17 Quincy Street, Sunday afternoon, January 13th, between 4 and 6 o'clock...