Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evans Hughes's alarm at the bulging group of quasi-judicial Federal agencies which take evidence, hand down decisions and generally fulfill functions formerly reserved to the courts insofar as they were performed at all was the most significant point in a speech he delivered before the American Law Institute last week. It was not, however the part of the Hughes speech which got the biggest headlines. This distinction was reserved for an apparently innocuous generalization: ". . . The prime necessity in making the judicial machinery work to the best advantage is the able and industrious judge, qualified by training, experience...
...been amused by it. Reporter Herbert Little of the Washington News had noted that whatever his other colleagues felt, at least Justices Brandeis and Roberts were on the best of friendly terms with Justice Black. And, leaping on the back of Chief Justice Hughes's remarks to the Law Institute, the New York Daily News's enthusiastic Washington Correspondents John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson broke all records for conclusion jumping on the subject: "Developments in the Capitol . . . suggested again that some of the lawgivers of the United States Supreme Court had hitched up their judicial robes...
...Gist of the 14th Amendment passed in 1868 to guarantee civil rights to Negroes was the clause providing that no State could "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. . . ." Following an 1886 precedent, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the term "person" applied to corporations as well as individuals. Gist of Justice Black's dissent in last January's Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. v. Johnson case: "I do not believe the word 'person' in the Fourteenth Amendment includes corporations...
...more than proved later last week. The best propaganda is always subtle, apparently uncontrolled, as in England. With the stupidity of a Hitler, a Stalin or a Mussolini, President Franco by decree subordinated all Rightist Spanish news-organs to his Government last week. Under Article 17 of the new law the Government "shall have the power to punish administratively any conduct which directly or indirectly tends to hurt the prestige of the Nation or of this Regime, obstructs the work of the Government of the new State, or sows pernicious ideas among weak intellects." Thus were the wings of every...
Doughty President Vargas lost no time in re-establishing the prestige of his regime. Declaring martial law, he started a cleanup. At the Navy Ministry, where the Integralistas had their only success in their well-planned but weakly-executed Putsch, the rebels were quickly dislodged and captured. An attack on the Green Shirt headquarters netted another 300 prisoners, and within 48 hours the jails were jammed with 700 prisoners, 25 Integralistas lay dead in the morgues. At least five Vargas defenders were killed in the attacks...