Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus disposed of the unemployment insurance law, Justice Cardozo went on to the old-age annuity section. This was an appeal by the Government from a lower court decision in favor of Stockholder George P. Davis who sued Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston to restrain it from paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform...
...Federal District Court he pleaded that he was being held without justification, lost the case. Early this year he won a partial victory. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the lower court unjustified in holding him for larceny, but justified in holding him for extradition on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He next appealed to the Supreme Court, without success. The U. S. State Department issued an extradition order, and last week Captain Hatfield reluctantly entered the custody of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. As he set off for Ottawa to await trial he hoped...
...interpretation of its great-grandparents, and their times. While society wept over the sentimentality of its men of letters, one alone among them was striving to reform the more ugly aspects of life. Dickens was indeed at work here to wield the powers at his command to raise the lower classes from the degradation and poverty which he knew so well. Not only does "Coronation Summer" paint a portrait of Victoria, her coronation, and her era, but it brings out in vivid colors the emotions and the intellectual ambitions which resulted in the works of Dickens. Thackeray...
...average all gains made since last summer. From a March high of 194.4 the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages showed a drop of some 27 points. Three times the market has rallied but each time the rally petered out, each time a fresh wave of selling carried prices lower than before...
...they approached the bridge, Eliot, still rowing at a lower stroke, began to creep up on Kirkland, and they cut the latter's lead to a deck length when they shot under Massachusetts Avenue. At the mile the Elephants had gotten up to 37 and were leading by inches and as they came down to the finish they were weaving around all over the river...