Word: interpreters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moratorium proposal-Paris, July 6, 1931." At the same time Ambassador Edge delivered the White House invitation. Swart little Premier Laval graciously accepted the invitation and the inkstands, remarking facetiously: "We are infinitely touched by your gesture. . . . Your compatriots who, we are told, use only fountain pens, will interpret this as a good-natured compliment to the tenacious habits of our ancient civilization." Arrangements were made for the Premier to sail on S. S. lie de France with Ambassador Edge. At first he said he would not take his daughter Jose, 20, with him. But after she saw her name...
...must be admitted," wrote the strongly pro-Court New York Times, "that this almost equal division . . . when asked to interpret a treaty, does not heighten its prestige...
Though officially the Governors' Conference accomplished nothing more than it ever does, it did serve to point up presidential politics for next year. Newsmen were quick to interpret Governor Pinchot's outburst as an opening sound off for the Republican nomination against President Hoover. Recalled was their long personal antagonism which culminated fortnight ago when President Hoover spoke alone at Valley Forge while Governor Pinchot was memorializing his old idol Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay tomb. While nobody seriously expected Mr. Pinchot to muster 10% of the delegates to the national convention, he became an anti-Hoover...
...first grand holiday was last Thursday morning. There, in Memorial Hall, he labored for hours over the 56 passages which were given for English 2, under the now traditional heading: "Interpret, discuss, supply information, as the case may require. Answers should be full, precise, and well expressed. Vague paraphrases are not acceptable. It is well to quote parallel passages. Indicate the context. Do not copy the questions." Yes, that does cover the situation pretty well, on the whole...
...were then cited as the court's Liberal minority upholding "human rights." Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler were grouped as the Conservative majority. Insurgent Senators flayed Nominee Hughes as a reactionary, a "corporation lawyer" who would ally himself with the court's conservatives to interpret the Law and the Constitution narrowly. Oilman-Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty spoke darkly of "opinions which will give a monopoly in perpetuity to some one corporation." Friends of Nominee Hughes were of a different opinion; they predicted that he would have a liberal cast of mind on the bench, might often...