Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case, in the NRA case and in the Frazier-Lemke mortgage case (not strictly a New Deal item), the Court did not divide. As Chief Justice Hughes thinks it should do, and as he always works to try to make it do, the Court spoke unanimously. These unanimous decisions meant more, however, than a victory for the Chief Justice. They served warning on the New Deal that it could not hope to win a legal whitewash by packing the Court with New Dealers. And the spectacle of liberals and conservatives united was the most convincing evidence that the Constitution itself...
...qualifying trial, set the pace. At 300 miles, he withdrew when his Gilmore Special broke a spring shackle. The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles. At 450 miles, a drizzle made the track slippery and officials waved the yellow flag. This meant that the speed limit was 75 m.p.h. and the drivers were to hold their relative positions. By the time the rain stopped, there were only 20 miles left. Kelly Petillo, who had taken the lead when Mays was forced out and held it ever since, knew then that...
...that meant that the company was pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek. The Pratt family's interest in Socony is exceeded only by that of the Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout...
Surely President Conant never meant to play the part of Robespierre when he announced his aim of developing scholars in Cambridge. Do the facts justify the "terror"? Just how many men are being fired and what change has occurred in Faculty standards...
...Yale has been almost unique in the country in giving the power to appoint and promote almost exclusively to the body of full professors in each school. The President has only a power of veto which has for obvious reasons been used put rarely. In practice this system has meant that the so-called "elder statesmen" in each department away the destinies of those among the lower ranks and of those who hope for appointment...