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...right to do so was at least debatable. Governor Davey of Ohio, who has a Republican Attorney General, had to have his brief filed by his secretary. These briefs sounded out the new defense. Said Lawyer Dickinson: "The issue of Federal power is at stake - whether there lurk interstices and crevices in the Constitution through which Federal power may have sifted away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Posthumous Egg | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...belong to any of these nationalistic societies. My only affiliations are with my local Grange for purely social reasons. Nor am I of these people who believe Communists lurk behind every bush waiting to destroy the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OATH HECKLER ADMITS CONANT NO COMMUNIST | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...background of the lurid light cast by the festive campfires of the triumphant bonuseers lurk menancing shadows. The immediate and pressing question is how to finance the two and one-half billion dollar payment. It has occured to some few souls that the money must be raised by taxation, either deferred or immediate, but such persons are not to be found in Congress or the lobbying headquarters of the American Legion. Even the reputed magician in charge of the Treasury has openly expressed skepticism as to the means and probable facility of raising the money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

...bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle with Lehmann. But his audience remembered too well the cunning of Scotti, the insinuating grace, the evil that seemed to lurk even in the folds of his cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tosca Recast | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...stomachs of those who have never experienced an Eliot House repast, there may lurk the false assumption that Lowell House has a monopoly on worm-ridden fish, bad eggs, wizened grape-fruit, oily orange-juice, moribund chops, all-wool pancakes, bilious liver, vegetables that smell as sweet by any other name, and so forth, down the pallid lists of the oleaginous concatenation of convalescing vitamins served at room temperature and garnished with the cadavers of the insect world. My gorge rises at the thought! I challenge any of the seven cross-sections to greater right to complaint. For the honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/26/1935 | See Source »

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