Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These union grafters, with their $10,000 salaries apparently added to by heavy bribes extorted from the contractors and corporations, have supplied the real sensation of the building trades investigation. Against such a system of blackmail as that which they put in force, the "hated capitalist" was bound to react. He reacted too far in seeking to prescribe union labor by the means of combination. But his error and offence in that respect should not throw the Lockwood investigation--or the Congressional--inquiry which is to follow--off the scent of the real and capital offence, which is the corruption...
Your convictions are not without an answer here in America. Few Americans were on the front long enough to react after this ironical year of "Peace" to the smells and sounds of your words, without which we cannot grasp your great or caustic truths. We are dangerously equipped to inform those who follow us, and we look to you and others, as Barbusse, to aid us. That which was enabled to bring back with me from a few months of war's reality was founded on my vivid associations at your Fifth Army school during that army's Paschendaele attack...
...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...