Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly mob at the goal posts is considered as particularly choice territory by most experienced pick pocket artists. All people in the mob expect to be jostled and in the process of pushing it is extremly simple for an accomplished law breaker to extract a wallet, ciggrette case, or the like
...Living Realities." After asking whether the Five-Year Plan was a success Eugene Lyons answers: "For whom and for what? Certainly not for the socialist dream, which had been emptied of human meaning in the process, reduced to a mechanical formula of the state as a super-trust and the population as its helpless serfs. Certainly not for the individual worker, whose trade union had been absorbed by the state-employer, who was terrorized by medieval decrees, who had lost even the illusion of a share in regulating his own life. Certainly not for the revolutionary movement of the world...
Although the United States Constitution contains no such express limitation on martial law, the general provision, "No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", was held by the United States Supreme Court in the great case of Ex-Parto Milligan to make it, impossible for an earlier Governor of Rhode Island (General Burnside) to establish martial law, even during the Civil War, in a region (Indiana) which was not invaded by the enemy but completely free from disorder and in which the civil courts were quietly sitting...
What about the Dartmouth football team? It has defeated four opponents, none of them difficult, and has rolled up 153 points in the process. It defeated Brown by a larger score than Harvard, and apparently it did so without extending itself...
...better fate last week, notably that of Continental Can Co. whose $20,000,000 of preferred stock, offered at $100 a share, went at a premium of $102, to the vast delight of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Similarly, a new firm named Lane-Wells Co. (which owns a unique process of "blowing in" oil wells with something called a "gun-perforator") successfully sold 40,000 shares at $15 each in its first public financing to the joy of Hartley Rogers & Co. But Continental Can is unusually strong and Lane-Wells enjoys unusual earnings. Other companies, less well fattened, have an understandable...