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Word: grounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit device was intended to enable Federal officers virtually to control the exertion of powers of the States in a field in which they alone have jurisdiction and from which the United States is by the Constitution excluded." A third dissent was rendered by Justice McReynolds on the ground that the law, by its tax feature, virtually coerced the States into passing unemployment insurance laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Security Secure | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...miners who dug Morgan Run coal, he soon carried a United Mine Workers card in his overalls. When Morgan Run coal was exhausted in 1922, Billy Green was one of the few members of the Morgan Run local who was not thrown out of work. Billy had gone above ground some 20 years before and was rapidly climbing to the top of the Labor ladder with his old Morgan Run local card tucked in a pocket of his business suit. When Samuel Gompers died in 1924, William Green stepped up to the top, became president of the American Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Loyal Local | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...further action or comment on my part would seem to be required until the committee have made their report. I should, however, like to say that the existence of substantial doubt within the University as to the justice or wisdom of the University's action is sufficient ground for welcoming an inquiry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXT OF REPORT | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

Having in this way operated on the courts, they returned to the Common Room, where they attacked a glass chandelier with beer cans. Finding the broken glass pretty cumbersome on the wooden floor, they ground it in with their heels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Would-be Doctors Operate on Tennis Court, Chandelier | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...wooden foundation on which the Tercentenary gift stands. Preliminary probings, however, revealed no trace of the marauders, and at a late hour last night it was not known whether more digging would take place at the same spot today or a return be made to Sever Hall, perennial eating ground of these animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Whatsis Gets Look See in Search for Termites | 5/26/1937 | See Source »

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