Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws enacted by the administration are of doubtful constitutional validity. In the Schecter and Panama Oil Cases the Supreme Court nullified acts which embodied some of the fundamental political principles of the current regime. But this does not lead to the necessary implications that all of the acts are invalid or that the administration is deliberately trying to submerge the Constitution...
...case of tuberculosis, pneumothorax may be a beneficial accident because it immobilizes the diseased lung, gives it a chance to rest and heal, and may enable the tuberculous invalid to attend his ordinary affairs. When doctors realized that good fact, they invented a procedure called artificial pneumothorax...
...Watch the woman, Drummond,' I shouted, for suddenly from the bed where the invalid had been lying sprang a gorgeously beautiful creature, a sinister something gleaming in her hand...
Last summer he dropped almost entirely out of the national spotlight when White House remodeling caused him to be removed to Washington's Naval Hospital. Last week the approaching Presidential campaign brought Invalid Howe back briefly into the news when an Associated Pressman went to his hospital bed, interviewed him for the first time since he fell ill. Perched on an elbow, his pent-up thoughts tumbling out in a staccato jumble, the gnarled, gnome-like little oldster crackled...
...aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives...