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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent. But he was no "New Deal Justice." The core of his social philosophy was a distrust of all arrangements, public or private, that too heavily taxed human fallibility. His grave objection to NRA was vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt used to justify his attempted Court purge. In a dissent he wrote in 1932-to a decision holding unconstitutional an Oklahoma law for licensing ice manufacturers-Justice Brandeis left one of his likeliest judicial epitaphs: "There must...
...began, Premier Juan Negrin, most of his cabinet and a few of his military aides early in the week made a beeline for the French border 17 miles away. The French Government, anxious to get in the good graces of Rebel Generalissimo Franco, quietly let it be known that the Loyalist Government would not be allowed to carry on its activities in French territory...
Armistice Day by hoisting a red flag atop his factory. Later, in the huge Government motor transport depot at Slough known as The White Elephant, he headed the workers' ironbound union. The Government dared not fire him for fear of arousing his followers. Solution: they sacked the whole kit & boodle-7,800 workingmen-just to get rid of Wal. Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead...
...work on the upper part of the body, while the Japs and Chinese relied more on tricky leg work. The Roman style is that copied by most college teams today. That's where the flying mare, the hiplock and the headlock come from. As to the hold known as the 'Oklahoma Ride', that was originated by the Romans. The boys from out west just appropriated...
Perhaps the outstanding characteristic of the book is a series of biographical sketches, which includes Lord Haig, Marshal Foch, Joffre, Ludendorff, and Lawrence of Arabia, as well as numerous lesser known military figures. These portraits are much more than more recitals of the chief events in the men's lives. They rather attempt to evaluate the influence of their previous experiences on the events in which these soldiers took a leading part. Captain Hart attempts to pierce the enveloping mist of popular applause and adulation to present the war leaders as they really were. With an almost too brutal frankness...