Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voice of the Court First witness against the Court proposal was Senator Burton K. Wheeler who favors gaining liberal ends by a Constitutional Amendment. Of Franklin Roosevelt's short cut he declared: "If I wanted to destroy the President I could think of no better way than to pass this bill." But Senator Wheeler's own ideas were dwarfed in news by his presenting the official views of the Court, a letter from Chief Justice Hughes answering specific questions put by Mr. Wheeler. True to Supreme Court tradition the Chief Justice confined his discussion to questions of Court...
...particular praise to the provisions of the Philippine Constitution which denies the Philippine Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional without a two-thirds vote, which requires justices to retire at 70. Said he: "There is no possibility in the Philippines for any court to say that if we pass an act regulating the number of hours of labor or prohibiting the use of child labor, or other measures of this nature, that the court will declare the action of the Legislature unconstitutional...
...fretting, Illinois justice hanged the sulker. In California, however, a convict must be sentenced within five days of the jury's verdict and must be fully aware of the sentence. So Judge Frank M. Smith went to the jail's hospital to see if he could pass sentence there. The woman lay on her back, arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith, but of a score of doctors, lawyers, jailers, reporters, photographers gathered in her cell. Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, told the judge that...
Tense, animated, but somehow casual, Fuller said that in his Junior year he tired of college and as a way to pass the time as painlessly as possible, started writing. Without reference to other books, he decided to "write on something I knew about . . . not life...
...back and I will carry you all over Russia." McKay had a friendly talk with Trotsky, who gave him a free pass to look at the Red Army and Navy...