Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though such prominent Democratic lawyers as John William Davis, Newton Diehl Baker and Frank Lyon Polk were not publicly outraged. Governor Roosevelt's use of "control'' was undoubtedly ill-chosen. The Supreme Court is properly divided not as Republicans and Democrats but as Conservatives and Liberals. Roosevelt apologists tried to explain that what he meant was that the conservative majority was Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench...
...responsibility for the present depression can be laid at anyone's door, surely big business is the most likely doorstep," declared Newton D. Baker, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Many of us have grown up in the United States to feel that the capitalistic system brings with it the largest social and economic gains. The period of depression in which we are now plunged has taught us that this system has defects. Thousands who have suffered in the present crisis have for years entrusted their independence to the leaders in the capitalistic world. If these leaders...
...Newton D. Baker, War Secretary under Wilson, will be the principal speaker at a meeting in New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock, under the auspices of the Harvard Democratic Club. Mr. Baker will be met at Langdell Hall by Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, of Cambridge, H. E. Howe '34, and D. M. Sullivan '33. He will then go to New Lecture Hall to make is address, which will deal with the coming election...
...Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War and present Chairman of the United Committee for the Mobilization of Unemployment Belief Forces, will address the Democratic Club, in a presidential rally in the New Lecture Ball on Wednesday, November 2 at 3.15 o'clock...
...Sullivan '33, president of the Democratic Club, will preside at the meeting and introduce Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Law. Professor Frankfurter will make a short address and present Newton D. Baker to the meeting...