Word: hulbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twin Falls, Idaho, last August the great American issue of States' rights jumped out of the history books and came alive for Farmer William C. Hulbert...
Beset by the scarcity of farm labor and machinery, Farmer Hulbert needed a tractor. When Twin Falls County auctioned off a secondhand 1940 International (list price: $1,200), which had been used for weed control, he gladly made the winning bid of $1,050. As he was about to collect his prize the OPA tapped him on the shoulder, and said: if you pay a penny more than the OPA ceiling price of $723.56 for this model you will be guilty of violating the Price Control Act of 1942. Alarmed, Farmer Hulbert forthwith ceased and desisted. Promptly Twin Falls County...
...stepped in to fight the suit for Farmer Hulbert. Argued the County: state law compels it to auction off public property to the highest and best bidder. OPA's action was a clear invasion of States' rights. Last week District Judge James W. Porter ruled otherwise. His reasoning: the Price Control Act is an emergency war measure. "The spirit of the Act would be violated, its purposes thwarted and its enforcement thrown into confusion by a holding that the Act does not cover the transactions of 48 state governments, thousands of counties, municipalities, school districts...
When the first of the DAE's sections came off the press in 1936, Sir William went home to Oxfordshire with his strong-minded wife. For seven years he and Co-Editor Hulbert collaborated and quibbled from a distance. Throughout the long printing process, two sets of every proof went to Sir William. He corrected and returned both. Sometimes he did his final editing on proofs, a practice which unnerves typesetters. The mangling got so bad that the Press almost lost its staff, had to serve an ultimatum on the editors...
...keep himself sane during his long devotion to thousands of little cards, Co-Editor Hulbert refreshed himself with detective stories. But what Sir William chiefly likes to do when not defining a word is to change the subject by defining another one. Last week he was in a hillside cottage above the pretty village of Watlington, plugging away on material for his Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, which has been in progress for twelve years. But as an old word wrestler he well knows that no lexicon is ever complete or wholly correct, and is partly out-of-date...