Word: perlman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tallying dragged on into this week, Young appeared supremely confident, was already talking about his new president for the Central, hinted that it might be the man he had dinner with the night before the meeting: A. E. Perlman, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad...
...President depend on any specific power?" asked slow-moving Justice Black. "We rely first on the Constitution," said Perlman...
Power & Circumstance. Davis walked back to his seat and mopped his lips with a white linen handkerchief as Phil Perlman lumbered up to the lectern. Perlman plunged directly into his principal defense: the President seized Big Steel because the safety of the U.S. demanded that the plants be kept open. Truman was not usurping powers of Congress; he had invited Congress to pass a law covering the situation the day after the seizure. "The President said he would abide by whatever Congress did," said Perlman. "He made that crystal-clear." Birdlike little Justice Frankfurter squeaked in agitation. "Are you suggesting...
...relying on the war powers?" pressed Douglas. "No, sir," replied Perlman, "we think the power is in the Constitution . . . We say that the sources of power must be considered in the light of the circumstances...
Frankfurter was almost airborne with agitation. Shaking his finger at Perlman, he piped: "Sources don't derive from circumstances...