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Another shot aimed at the proposal is that it will help pave the way for a dictatorship. Hart believes that the Court would be very little protection once a popular majority had been won over by the emotional appeal of a would-be dictator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Bulletin Shows Opinions of Graduates on F.D.R. Court Scheme | 4/20/1937 | See Source »

...hardships, and their attempts to reconcile their elders is not a particularly new theme--and it can be deadly if the soft soap is laid on too thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

Great Adventure. All this but served to pave the way for Franklin Roosevelt's arrival in Buenos Aires. Unlike Dr. Saavedra, Mr. Hull does not overshadow his President. The U. S. part in the conference at Buenos Aires will certainly be cut to fit Franklin Roosevelt's plans. The story by Arthur Krock of President Roosevelt's plans to invite Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and other chiefs of States to a diplomatic conference (TIME, Sept. 7) was almost too fantastic even to be a trial balloon. But observers know there is no fantasy in assuming that Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pan-American Party | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

With the year's biggest crowd (80,000) packed into Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame marched 57 yards to one touchdown, re-covered a fumble to pave the way for a second, intercepted a pass to prepare for a third, while a 55-yd. run by Army's Monk Meyer saved his team from a shutout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...request for an appropriation in the form of a joint resolution which would have to go through Congress and be signed by the President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable action, Senator Black slipped South Carolina's Representative John Jackson McSwain a copy of one telegram from Publisher Hearst which Senate investigators had taken from the Western Union files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: August Idyl | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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