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...cotton involved nor the warehouse receipts on it are instrumentalities of interstate commerce," cried Mr. Beck. "How would you draw a distinction?" demanded Justice Brandeis. "If the Government has the power to create an instrumentality, why hasn't it the power to say 'if you destroy or impair it, you will be punished...
...called "big-time" football which have incurred the worry of men like Messrs. Conant and Bingham. Neither they nor the majority of Harvard undergraduates want to relegate football to an inconsequential position. Excellent coaching, training, and facilities are the prime requisite of any sport. Nor do they want to impair the delight and interest in football contests, such as the one today...
...reasonable person thinks that this is going to destroy competent corporations or impair business as a whole. Taxes on 95% of our corporations are actually reduced...
...roses. If his relations with both Lillian Russell (Binnie Barnes), who refused to marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold, making the most...
Precisely why William Johnson Harahan was demoted from the presidency of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1929 has never been satisfactorily explained. Certainly that able railroad man, son of a onetime president of Illinois Central, had done nothing to impair C. & O.'s profits, which were excellent, or its West Virginia coal traffic, which was expanding. Best guess for his removal seemed to be that Mr. Harahan, who had gone to C. & O. before the Van Sweringens bought control of it in 1922, was not as close to the Bachelor Brothers of railroading as John Joseph...