Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spinachseed says he is sorry, but "these things must be expected by scientists. Their theories must someday prove insufficient; and others, in the light of new discoveries, will take their place. Time marches on, hand in hand with knowledge...
...wanted this session of Congress to end some day, made an end of arguing. By 60-to-10 it passed a bill 1) rating Depression II as a $3,722,905,000 affair-$568,480,000 bigger than the House thought- 2) giving Franklin Roosevelt almost as free a hand in spending the money as he had asked...
...winter. This reasoning defeated also a provision to have the spending spread over a full eight months. There was no telling what moneys would be most needed for what ends if conditions did not improve by next winter. Let the President, his lieutenants urged, have a free hand. The Senate yielded...
...President Roosevelt's hands last week lay the power to fill 20 new Federal judgeships, one of the biggest single batches ever.*In the President's files were endorsements for 223 candidates for these vacancies -important political ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied his shots, more Federal Court vacancies came to hand, in the Third Circuit Court at Philadelphia. A rugged rock in the path of the New Deal steam roller was this Third Circuit Court. Four of its aged justices-Joseph Buffmgton, J. Whitaker Thompson, Victor B. Woolley, J. Warren Davis-had worked...
...refer to his robe, which for years has been the despair and humiliation of every one connected with this Court. It is a sad commentary on the administration of justice, and the concern over it has reached way down to his native State of North Carolina. Before we hand over the judgeship of this Court, I want him to take off that old robe...