Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of constitutional government, the U.S. seemed headed for a decision by its Supreme Court on the limits of a President's power. Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills had raised the issue. A forthright judgment by Federal District Judge David A. Pine had brought the issue to a head. Whatever the Supreme Court's ruling, Judge Pine's decision came as a sharp check to the persistent expansion of presidential powers which began-and was warmly welcomed by most of the U.S.-in the early days of the New Deal...
...Pine: Do you mean that if the President empowered Mr. Sawyer to take you into custody and execute you, you'd have no power to enjoin...
...Pine: We've had crises before in this country, and we've had Government machinery adequate to cope with them . . . You are arguing for expediency...
...Pine: Is it your concept of Government . . . that the Constitution limits Congress, and it limits the Judiciary but does not limit the Executive...
...Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring a new smelter city of 15,000 to the N.W.T. within a decade...