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With a sweeping gesture Judge Otis granted a temporary injunction, declared the whole act unconstitutional. Said he: "Under the commerce clause, insofar as we are here concerned with it, Congress has power to regulate one thing only, this is: commerce among the several States...
...huge system-or chaos -of competition for private profit; but it never really is that; it always is cooperation for public service. It is for the public service because if no one wants the product there will be no purchasers, no purchase price, no wages and no profits. Except insofar as it serves the public, business cannot...
Playwright O'Neill, admittedly, was skylarking, insofar as it comports with the dignity of U. S. Playwright No. 1 to skylark, when he got period laughs out of his sentimental little comedy. Screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich have gone further, using the sound frame of O'Neill's drama as the basis for a period pastiche. It is all there, for people who can think back 30 years: the band concert on the common; the tandem bicycles, shirtwaist watches, lemonade and porch swings; the crested brewery horses, prancing to the political club picnic on the Fourth...
...Latin education, far from alienating us from our own world teaches us to discern the amiable traits in it, and the genuine achievements; helping us, amid so many distracting problems, to preserve a certain balance and dignity of mind, together with a sane confidence in the future.' Insofar as American education strives towards those ideals, the role of the Latin School becomes important in the cultural history of the nation, and the importance of that role has never been greater than at present, even though all the great names in the school's history...
When this communique first came through from Rome the phrase in quanta esse was mistakenly translated, "as," and Anglo-Saxon headlines announced MUSSOLINI SAYS "NO." On the contrary, Italy's Geneva Delegation declared, Premier Mussolini could only have inserted "insofar as" (in quanta esse), "to leave the door ajar for negotiation." Next day Il Duce, having thus far done nothing but reject offers, made Italy's first proposals. His League Delegate Baron Aloisi asked, in effect, for a partial League mandate over Ethiopia. The country's armed forces would be largely under Italian advisers to the Emperor, and exclusively mandated...