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...friend of the court" Solicitor Reed appeared on behalf of the Government to defend the Bankhead Act. He told the Court that its prerogative to declare a law unconstitutional should not be exercised except with the utmost care and for the gravest reasons. Very sour indeed were the faces of the Justices at being thus instructed in their duties. As a reason for the Court's not passing on the validity of the law, he advanced the argument that the Moor case was a "non- adversary proceeding; that is, a collusive suit between the plaintiff and the defendants...
Other nations were treated last week to a British general election campaign waged on the gravest issues of foreign policy with complete abandon and free speech...
...There are the gravest difficulties in having an election at any other time of the year than autumn or in the first six weeks of the new year." he began. "You find in nearly the last forty years the only exception to that rule was when I was Prime Minister in May, I think...
...banking situation, which is characterized by unprecedentedly low money rates and by the greatest surplus reserves ever recorded. . . . Given a sufficient degree of confidence, or perhaps of desperation, or even of reckless boredom over the prolonged idleness of money, a situation could develop which would threaten the gravest consequences through an upward flight of security prices...
...began: "I know he has not got a drop of good, clean, pure red blood in his whole body. And I know the color of his liver and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow." The Hearst newspapers were flayed for deliberate "lies,'' for "the gravest abuse of the power of the Press in the history of this country." After 30 angry minutes of denunciation, Governor Smith wound up by urging the people of "this city, this State and this country ... to get rid of this pestilence that walks in the darkness...