Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true. The railroad made Jefferson's tributary back country independent of the port. That...
...Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang sunk clear through his left flank. Few days later he ran a strong three-hour race in the National...
...central question is "how long before some administration will 'pack' the Court to affect decisions on the issue of liberty itself," it is obviously not only his right but his duty to speak. If, however, the implications are not as broad as this, he may rather be doing free education a disservice and banking the fires of intolerance. The Roosevelt measure will have far reaching effect, but many will deny that it can be considered primarily as a threat to the educational principles for which President Conant and Harvard stand. The result of entering the political lists when the institution...
Entering the National political arena for the first time President Conant yesterday denounced the Roosevelt plan to pack the Supreme Court as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic country...
...liberals to stomach. He had practically proved that the President's bill would not effect any permanent judicial change. Its only long-range effects would be to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court and set a precedent for future presidents to propose bills to pack the Court. But if Franklin Roosevelt increases the Supreme Court to 15 members, the time may come when all 15 are over 70 and archconservatives, yet so far as the present bill goes no future President would be entitled to Franklin Roosevelt's privilege of appointing new members. Thus stripped...