Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May the nine Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court sat in judgment on a sick chicken sold by Schechter Bros, of Brooklyn. Their verdict was death for NRA. Last week the same Court sat in judgment on one of the late chicken's eggs, the Guffey Coal...
Last week brought the "complete surprise" that Squire Baldwin chose to be his deputy a man who must appeal strongly to the pious judgment of the Prime Minister's good wife Lucy. Neither she nor Mr. Baldwin ever pays the slightest attention to newspapers, a circumstance which makes the Prime Minister's acts frequently bewildering to newspaper readers and even more so to their editors. Stanley Baldwin decided to place the Committee of Imperial Defense in the hands of Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip...
...bound to carry out our obligations under that Covenant. I regard the motion with misgiving because it would mean that we no longer would be bound by provisions of a treaty we had deliberately signed. That is a doctrine which is not only extremely dangerous but in my judgment is highly immoral...
...manifestly impossible that the sons and daughters of Israel can dissociate their feelings from their artistic judgment at a concert directed by a man whom they regard as an enemy of their race. To avoid painful experiences they will take the simple and logical course of staying away from these concerts. And if they abandon the Philharmonic-Symphony Society, it will perish. There is no musical enterprise of any kind whatever that can prosper in this great Jewish city without the support of the Jews...
Yesterday another high court put its foot in it. Now York's Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the State Housing law. From now on cities are permitted to condemn tenements owned by private capitalists, pay for them according to the judgment of their own appraisers, and build their own tax-free housing projects in their stead...