Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingston, Mich., about 225 mi. from Chicago, Dr. Erich Koerner & Richard Scheutz, Germans, descended into a watery ditch. At Albion, Mich., about 213 mi. from Chicago, Louise and Eleanor Hall, daughters of an Albion College professor, were summoned to interpret for two for- eigners who had come down in a balloon: Georges Ravaine & Georges Blanchet, Frenchmen...
Pending court decisions (which must interpret nearly every clause in the bill) Braintruster Berle, in his New York Times article, gave comfort to businessmen by announcing that the New Deal would put no honest man in jail. (Honest men need worry only about their ability to prove themselves honest.) Finally, there is behind the Securities Act a strong reminder that a corporation is not a thing which anybody has a "right" to create but that it should be created by the state "only when there is some reasonable likelihood in statecraft . . . that it will be a useful organism." Ultimately, nation...
Some Senators feared that if Mr. Barry were peremptorily dismissed, the Senate would be publicly condemned as hot-headed and vengeful. Others argued that unless the Sergeant-at-Arms were quickly ousted, the country would interpret the Senate's delay as a confession of guilt. Senator Norris moved immediate dismissal. The Senate divided on party lines and the motion was lost 31-to-40. The Barry case was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A helpful newshawk reminded Mr. Barry of a statement made last May by Senator Carter Glass concerning branch banking. To the committee, Mr. Barry quoted...
...recognize bacteria and protozoa with a microscope. But not until Louis Pasteur did anyone explain the meaning of Leeuwenhoek's "little animals." Last year Clifford Dobell, English protistologist (student of unicellular organisms), nephew of the man who invented Dobell's Solution, after learning 17th Century Dutch to interpret bad contemporary Latin translations of Leeuwenhoek's unscientific Dutch, published a Leeuwenhoek biography (Harcourt, Brace, $7.50). Its Latin dedication translates: "This work of a dead Dutchman the English editor (as an animalcule to an ELEPHANT) gives, devotes & dedicates to his dearest brother, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a Scotsman...
...possibilities of the passage of a beer bill require consideration since they are not understood by many people. There are three reasons that make its success likely. First is the fact, that Congress has full power to interpret the definition of intoxicating liquors; secondly, proceeding from the first reason, such an act only needs a majority vote to become law; and lastly that it is generally believed that the Supreme Court will uphold any definition that Congress may make. As the situation stands, it is hardly possible for the drys to block...