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...decision of the Supreme Court in the Steel Corporation case, and cannot be allowed to go unanswered. "This court", says Mr. Leach, "has reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statute which usually accomplishes this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In other words, the public weal supersedes all law." The Supreme Court reasoned in no such way. If it had, it would have said in effect...
...application of laws and has set an opochmaking precedent. This court, composed of the nine-most mature legal minds in the country, has reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statue which usually accomplished this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In a word, the public weal supersedes...
...America, where people form their own opinions and emotions. "We hate as one," said Lissauer's Hymn of Hate, and that was good German system, organization, propaganda. Here we work out our national salvation on a different plan. The individual rules. Tell him the facts and let him react as he wills. So runs the American idea...
...eyes, yet he was a nationalist, and had a firm, and reasonably constructive view of foreign affairs. The victorious parties have no leadership, except from Berlin, and no principles, except to show their appreciation for democracy by openly fighting for autocracy. Until, worn out by their excesses, the people react and demand a conservative, stable government, there is no hope for the Allies from Russia, and judging from past revolutions that period will be long. Nations have seen years of blood before the new and better era dawned...
...stated the conclusion which logically follows: namely, that, since the university clientele in England is of the governing class, university sport is above and beyond popular and especially popular newspaper criticism. 'Varsity sport has its influence on the sports of the nation. But the sports of the people react scarcely at all on the universities. In this country, on the contrary, as regards football, university sport is the sport of the people. The real name of 'American' football is intercollegiate football. Last fall, according to Parke Davis, more than six million persons paid to see American college teams play football...