Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the Court, the drafters of the AAA of 1938 inserted a provision separating the Act into sections dealing with each crop, so that the whole Act could not be thrown out by one adverse decision. But perhaps the strongest safeguard was arithmetic. Of the five Justices whose majority opinion threw out the AAA of 1938, neither Willis Van Devanter nor George Sutherland will ever write a Supreme Court opinion...
...recently went from Hankow to Hong Kong and from there to Europe (TIME, Jan. 3), was in Moscow last week and-contrary to the general impression that Mr. Sun has been successfully negotiating Soviet aid for China - Correspondent Walter Duranty cabled his opinion that J. Stalin & Co. were cold-shouldering China...
...Victoria, B. C. last week by Journalist Jim Marshall, a survivor of the sunken U. S. S. Panay. Japanese with whom Mr. Marshall talked en route told him they are afraid their country will "crack" this spring, because it has so over-extended itself in China. "In my personal opinion Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang are all washed up as a dominant influence in Central China," said Mr. Marshall, adding with reference to Japanese overextension: "If the Japanese take Hankow, I am afraid that both China and Japan are through...
...crusading U. S. merchant of church supplies, Horace Lytton Varian, president of Baltimore's Ammidon & Co., the Sheffield incident was very satisfying. Mr. Varian, an Episcopal church usher himself, has no high opinion of some churchgoers. He calls those who do not give liberally "snitchers" and "ecclesiastical lice." As an expert on collections who knows that open plates do not encourage largess in the U. S. he predicted last week that in Sheffield Mr. Ashcroft's 20% increase would soon dwindle...
...sponsors believe that the Congress will produce a high caliber of debate and a spirited exchange of opinion comparable to those of its models at Oxford and Yale. The model Constitutional Convention of last year and the Model League of Nations sessions have shown that this type of body can accomplish worthwhile results...