Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victorious in defending eight major New Deal laws before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Reed suffered three defeats, in cases involving NRA, AAA and the Bankhead Act (where a combination of overwork and hostility from the bench brought him to a courtroom collapse). After the AAA case his dark, lively wife, Winifred, long active in politics as registrar general of the D. A. R., performed the most audacious political feat of Washington's 1936 social season by inviting all the Supreme Court Justices to dinner...
Although no one suspects Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, proprietor of the London Times and brother-in-law of famed Nancy, of having taken "Nazi gold," his great journal has gradually become sufficiently pro-German to provoke international reactions. Not long ago that famed "Thunderer," the Times, editorialized...
...Times itself last August called such Rapprochement "the main purpose of this paper." The titled group behind the purpose is headed by Major Astor...
Britons, even those who approve the pro-German leanings of Major Astor and his friends, could not remember that the sacrosanct Times had ever before been accused of such journalistic and political cheating...
...however, that in this category the film is weak. There are glimpses of the Polish desire for independence, of the growth of Napoleon's empire, and of the great retreat from Russia, but little attempt is made to tie these strands together or to indicate their relation to the major theme. Moreover, the love affair itself is not logically treated; it is, for instance, quire impossible to believe that the Countess could hate napoleon in one moment and love him in the next simply because in the meantime he had delivered a noble address on liberty and democracy. Nevertheless...