Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic Washington Correspondents John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson broke all records for conclusion jumping on the subject: "Developments in the Capitol . . . suggested again that some of the lawgivers of the United States Supreme Court had hitched up their judicial robes and in dignified fashion were in the process of putting the slug on their colleague, Associate Justice Hugo L. Black...
...Gist of the 14th Amendment passed in 1868 to guarantee civil rights to Negroes was the clause providing that no State could "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. . . ." Following an 1886 precedent, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the term "person" applied to corporations as well as individuals. Gist of Justice Black's dissent in last January's Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. v. Johnson case: "I do not believe the word 'person' in the Fourteenth Amendment includes corporations...
...mosaics have a peculiar quality to them which means that a special process to reproduce this quality is needed. In making the great works of art, the cartoon was first painted on the plaster and the cubes were pressed into it while still wet. The artists engaged in this project were far advanced in technique. They understood well the value of gold in their backgrounds for an effect of space filled with light, and they learned to incline all the cubes slightly forward to meet directly the line of sight from below, thus gaining the utmost in clearness and brilliance...
...apart the vast layer of propaganda to get at the truth of the foreign situation. "Looking Behind the Censorships" does much more than present the difficulties of the foreign news hawk, it attempts to get at the bottom of the maze of events abroad, and expounds in the process some surprising conclusions which the author has drawn from his vast sources of information...
...that a group of unnamed Canadians had bought a controlling interest in the trust last October for approximately $50,000 when its portfolio held securities worth some $3,300.000, and that Continental has since been looted so thoroughly that only $20,000 in marketable securities are left. In the process Continental acquired control of an investment trust named Reynolds Investing Co., which is now being investigated by SEC. Brokerage transactions for both were handled by the firm of Prentice & Brady which began liquidation April first and is now being investigated by the Attorney General's office (TIME, April...