Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First off he disarmed Administration Senators by announcing himself a lifelong Democrat who had voted enthusiastically for Franklin Roosevelt both for Governor and President, and who heartily believed that the present Court situation was "manifestly unsatisfactory and calls for corrective action." He agreed that the Federal Government needed more power. But, he pointed out, if six new Roosevelt justices should agree with the interpretation of the Constitution's "general welfare" clause which the President put upon it in his last fireside chat, there would be virtually no limit to the Government's powers. "Furthermore," drawled the Dean...
...State Madison refused to deliver to him, gave Chief Justice Marshall a chance to set his Federalist stamp on U. S. history. For the first time he asserted the right of the Supreme Court to nullify Acts of Congress as "unconstitutional." Thomas Jefferson, Marshall's distant cousin and lifelong political foe, never acknowledged that claim. If it were correct, he declared in the first great anti-Supreme Court blast, "then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo-de-se [suicide...
...Franklin Roosevelt was going to define his position on the railroads a few days hence in Salt Lake City. Mr. Pelley had recently issued a statement about government regulation with which Mr. Roosevelt had found himself in complete accord. Might Mr. Roosevelt quote it in part? John Pelley, a lifelong Republican, amiably consented. "And," he later recalled, "I came damned near voting...
...ladylike shellacking. Born on the Island of Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent her early childhood in Canada in an atmosphere of "aristocratic exclusiveness" which she admits was "already nearly a century out of date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty of the family. Elinor herself had red hair and green eyes, and red hair was not the thing in the 1880s...
...most brilliant men ever graduated from Princeton (1903), Paxton Hibben had successive exciting careers in diplomacy, politics, war correspondence, the A. E. F., post-War famine relief, authorship (Constantine I and the Greek People, Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, An American Report on the Russian Famine). A lifelong liberal, he requested that his ashes be taken to Moscow. Following his death in Manhattan in 1928, they were...