Word: held
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...John McClellan to warn against writing hasty legislation on the floor, an old Senate bugaboo. And he got Jack Kennedy to promise to schedule three additional weeks of labor hearings, with the extra promise that additional labor-regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills than a routine pension and welfare bill...
That force survived and beat down the political absolutism of the 17th and 18th centuries, which held that the law was no more than the will of the sovereign. Sir Edward Coke immortalized Bracton's words-"Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege" (The king ought not to be under man, but under God and the law)-by flinging them in the furious face of absolutist James I. Then Coke fell to his knees in terror of losing his head-yet his doctrine lives today as the wellspring of the rule...
Pound's emphasis on principle marks something of a revolution in U.S. thought about the law. For many decades powerful opinion held that the law stemmed not from fundamental, rational principles but rather from the needs of the day. In the complexities of modern life it became fashionable to hold that principles are as changeable as those needs. The U.S. lawyer who best symbolized this view was Oliver Wendell Holmes-the Magnificent Yankee. No one had a greater love of the law than Holmes, who sat on the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Although often in the minority...
...particularly serious violations, the court of arbitration will be entitled by the terms of the treaty to oblige the member countries to refuse new private or public loans and credits to the country in default." The Universal Instinct. Through such efforts toward an orderly system that satisfies the principles held in common by most nations, a rule of law can be established that exerts its force even on the legal outlaws who this week celebrate May Day in their own way. More and more, as men of law become familiar with the legal systems of other nations, they find-often...
Presumably somebody told Khrushchev he had said the wrong thing. Last week, as he held forth at a Polish embassy reception in Moscow, his eye lit on Israel's Ambassador Joseph Avidar. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians had asked Marshal Voroshilov about Soviet mistreatment of Jews, Khrushchev said, during her recent visit to Moscow's Tchaikovsky festival. Voroshilov denied the charge by saying, "In fact my wife is Jewish." Khrushchev added: "Half the members of the Presidium have Jewish wives." Those who keep track of such matters in the West doubt that even two Presidium members have Jewish...