Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard University Press acted immediately on the designation of Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, to occupy a seat on the Supreme-Court by sending his eminently successful book, "Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court," into a fourth large printing...
...book had been dedicated in these words. "To Mr. Justice Cardoza, rightful successor of Mr. Justice Holmes." Professor Frankfurter sent a specially stricken copy of this dedication to the death bed of the man whom he was named to succeed yesterday...
This evidence of low prices for farm products points to the most significant element in the commodity-price weakness- the inequilibrium which worries Mr. Roosevelt when he suggests that some prices should fall, others rise. For, whereas prices of farm products and raw materials (output of which cannot be easily controlled) break on slight excuse, prices of manufactured products (output of which is more or less controllable) are firmly established...
...rate rise. ICC said 5.3% was enough. Then they asked for a 15% wage cut. Franklin Roosevelt's Railway Fact-Finding Board said No. This left the railroads, stretched between the engine of rising costs and the caboose of lagging traffic, with no recourse but legislative aid. So Mr. Roosevelt asked three railroad officials and three railroad labor officers to prepare proposals for Congress...
...Winkling is no excuse" was the astonishing accusation hurled by New York Supreme Court Justice William H. Black last summer against Bethlehem Steel's august Chairman Charles M. Schwab and a batch of lesser bigwigs. Mr. Schwab failed to recall what happened between 1927 and 1934 when the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which he once headed, lost $215,000 on an engineering index. Members sued to recover, and Justice Black found against Tycoon Schwab's "inconceivable ignorance" (TIME, June 20). Last week the Appellate Division delivered a decision, devoid of Justice Black's wit and invective...