Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flay his old chief's plan, onetime No. 1 Brain Truster Raymond Moley next day cried, "The institutions of democracy grow and strengthen only through their use. Let us make democracy work by working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend and amend than pack and pack and pack." There were already plenty of people who would rather amend the Constitution than accept the President's Plan-if they could only agree on an amendment, and Pundit Moley offered no solution of their problem. Neither did Princeton's President Dodds, whose best thought...
...First Words: 'Don't Let Roosevelt Pack the Supreme Court...
...rigors of legal education, the law students, even more than the undergraduates, suffer when their facilities for exercise are inadequate or maladministered. Dr. Bock's observation that many young barristers ailing at Stillman are victims of poor physical training should clarify the need for dealing out a new pack of cards in this regard...
This is indubitably true, if for no other reason than that foresighted Mr. Quezon has appointed only seven justices to his Supreme Court although his Constitution allows for eleven. So he can at any time pack his Court. Said the strutting little autocrat of the Islands: "We have made democracy effective and made it impossible for any one to grab the reins of government and proclaim himself a dictator...
...political field, Conant made his first appearance in the political arena by strongly opposing the Teachers' Oath Bill as "Unamerican, unnecessary, and unwise." Recently he blasted the President's proposal to pack the Supreme Court...