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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President put on a vigorous act, a stern lecture on the need for judiciary reform. He was severe with the Supreme Court. It had left important New Deal cases undecided. It had refused to prevent the suit of 19 utilities against TVA from going to trial in the lower courts. It had granted appeals on two suits against PWA power loans to municipalities, thereby keeping $50,000,000 of such loans tied up. It had refused the Government's request to allow Electric Bond & Share's challenge of the Public Utility Holding Company Act to be appealed directly...
...Trade, the economic profundity of the Gould definition was clearly demonstrated once again. Speculators had sold corn they did not own for delivery on the last trading day in May. Of course, the speculators hoped that in the meantime they could buy back the corn they had sold at lower prices. But instead of going down corn went up, up, up. By last April it was selling at $1.33 per bu., a twelve-year high, and in the subsequent world-wide break in commodity prices corn suffered relatively little. Last week in a belated scramble to buy corn...
Penn held its lead until about half a mile from the finish; then the Navy went by, gliding along at 32 or 33. A powerful boatload, the sailors were rowing three or four strokes lower than their opponents...
Some men, as we said, are harder markers than others. Since the same student is doing all the answers to one question, he should naturally be given the same grade all through. But if he happened to strike a hard marker, he would feel justifiably hurt at receiving a lower mark than someone else. A par grade should be established for each question, which would total, say, 88 per cent...
From Chicago, fuel was heaped last week onto the already blazing fire. The heaper was Chicago's erudite, 64-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop, George William Cardinal Mundelein, who started life on Manhattan's lower East Side and early won renown as a youthful orator. Before 500 Catholic prelates and priests assembled for the quarterly diocesan conference at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Cardinal Mundelein tore into the Nazi Government: "The fight is to take the [2,000,000 German] children away from us. ... Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of 60,000,000 people, intelligent...