Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be aired. During the election the powers of that branch of the government had taboo written all over it. But now the question may be discussed with freedom, particularly with regard to what should constitute a majority of the Supreme Court and how the great powers of the lower courts should be. Even in the most acrimonious argument, however, it must be kept in mind that the high court is and must remain a coordinate branch of the government if it is to serve the nation, and often serve well, by outlawing passing fancies and ill-taken action...
...majority opinion reversing the lower court's decision last week, Mr. Justice Sutherland sharply distinguished between the President's foreign and domestic powers. The Federal Government's foreign powers, said he, were not derived from the States, but inherited from the British Crown as "necessary concomitants of nationality...
Originally conceived in a small independent station as an advice hour in which Novelist Fannie Hurst was to counsel unfortunates, the Good Will Court had become a forum in which selected wretches told their troubles to real judges from the lower courts, who then dealt out free advice. A classic case was that of a young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest...
...listeners over a coast-to-coast network, with commercial plugs by breathless Graham McNamee. An obvious "natural" for the mass audience, the Good Will Court was given approval by a parade of politicians led by New York's Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting Co.'s officials convinced themselves the program was "a good...
...first temporary exhibition, the Hochschild gallery showed a full size cement model of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Diana of Madison Square Garden, and pulled from its archives drawings and plans of special interest to architects. There were preliminary drawings for the pompously domed Astor's Hotel, pride of lower Broadway in the 1830's. There were the competition drawings by Architects George Martin Huss and John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge...