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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modest proposals. On the basis of these old and eminently reasonable arguments, the President made his proposals: Let the Chief Justice have power to assign temporarily lower court justices from one court to another when dockets grow crowded. Let the Supreme Court have a new officer, a $10,000-a-year "proctor" to watch for congestion in the lower courts and recommend transfers of judges and other steps to relieve it. Let any decision on the constitutionality of a law be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, there to take precedence over other cases so that the constitutionality of laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: De Senectute | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Many basic problems are left unsettled, may grow to monstrous size and reappear in the same industry in the next six months, and are almost certain to be raised elsewhere. First, can a minority group of perhaps ten or fifteen percent force a much greater group of satisfied employees out of work? Secondly, is it possible for this striking group to use as its weapon the illegal occupation of plants? Thirdly, can unions continue to have what Mr. Justice Brandeis called "practical immunity from legal liability," can they stave of, even in such instances as the present, incorporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNISM DE LUXE | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

...Lloyd's of London," the producers took what seemed to be a singularly unromantic subject and whipped into shape one of the best motion pictures of the year. The scope of the film embraces a period of about thirty-five years that period which saw Lloyd's grow from a Coffee House meet place for underwriting syndicates to the largest insurance mart in the world...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: AT THE METROPOLITAN | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Last week jubilant British subjects were looking anxiously at their King's smooth chin. Word had gone round that His Majesty's Government in the person of Squire Baldwin had advised the King-Emperor to grow a beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grow a Beard | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...planting the seeds of mutual confidence, and of giving the young plants a chance to grow, is a great art. Most of Europe has not learned it. Let us hope that we in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Great Schism | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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