Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supporters in this autumn's Congressional elections. At the same time Statesman Roosevelt, midway of his second and (perhaps) last term as U. S. President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin Roosevelt's personal appeal, but his methods and policies. His obvious job was to persuade the nation to look upon his works as statesmanlike achievements...
...life. But he did not hold it in arid reverence. "The judicial process," he wrote, "is one of compromise between paradoxes, between certainty and uncertainty. . . ." Because his learning was great and his mind keen, he found his way cleanly through legal paradoxes. In his Supreme Court majority opinion upholding the Social Security Act last year, he stated the essence of the philosophy which made him "a judicial evolutionist": "Needs that were narrow or parochial a century ago may be interwoven in our day with the well-being of the nation. What is criticial or urgent changes with the times...
...Federal Wages-&-Hours Bill. And it was the respect in which it failed to pass the court. Including H. Edgar Barnes. Earle's appointee and the only Democrat on the bench, the seven justices ruled as though they were paraphrasing the U. S. Supreme Court's NRA opinion: that a legislature cannot legally "abdicate, transfer or delegate" its powers to an administrator...
...Stetson is the author of Sunspots and Their Effects (TIME, Nov. 22), in which he ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology through such channels as vitamin intake, electrical effects on nerve impulses, electrified particles in the air. Hence, since business activity is "fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded...
...Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath him. When Fanny published her U. S. travel impressions, which made a scandalous success, her in-laws' opinion was echoed even...