Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judges have had to look for money to the Department of Justice, whose fiscal 1938 budget includes some $18,000,000 for the Judiciary. Since the Department has more cases in those courts than any other agency or person, judges and lawyers alike have long felt there was something vaguely improper about this procedure. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was for a bill introduced in the last Congress to set up a separate court budget. Then he reconsidered, quashed the measure. What gave him pause was the awful thought that a comptroller appointed by him might some day turn crook...
...always chiefly interested in defense and so are many other Frenchmen. Last week the Premier was under pressures amounting to attack on the French internal and also on the French external front. He resolutely prepared his defenses, and in doing so was assisted by the British Prime Minister in person, the first working trip to Paris by an incumbent of No. 10 Downing Street since the days of James Ramsay MacDonald, the Laborite apostle of the League who generally only sped through Paris on his way out to Geneva or home. It was two kinds of war: first, strife fomented...
Subject: Sin and Grace: What the Church means by Grace; Whether sin has any real meaning for a modern person; And whether there can be forgiveness...
...thinking out loud now, ideas on college, "the four years of shelter from a hard world, the four years of beautiful leisure." The Vagabond remembered that it had been Mr. Frost who had told him that of all the things in college, only two were worthwhile for a person of artistic leanings, "sports and publications." He was following that line now, he was even saying he wouldn't hate college as much if he was to go through it again...
...they were told by an unidentified person that they would find a light in the middle of the attic. The attic, located between the fifth floor and the roof, was known to be a dark, forbidding chamber...