Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cantankerous House & Senate.* Last week President Roosevelt tossed the custom of the country out the window and made a breezy bit of history by carrying Veto No. 675 up to the Capitol in person and making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay the soldier Bonus with printing press money...
...Daniels. Then Franklin Roosevelt marched in and up the special gangway to the rostrum. In the hush that followed the outburst of applause, the ice tinkled out as Secretary Marvin McIntyre poured his chief a glass of water. Laying his glasses on the lectern, President Roosevelt, unsmiling, began to read his message, a thorough, unequivocal rebuttal to the advocates of bonus and greenbacks...
...Court filed in looking cheerful, particularly Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Stone and McReynolds. By turns the Justices began to read decisions. Justice Butler read one of little public interest. Justice Sutherland read one making news, in which it was held that President Roosevelt had no right to oust a Federal Trade Commissioner without specific cause (see p. 11). Next, more news: Mr. Justice Brandeis declared the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Bill unconstitutional (see p. 15). Then all that news of a newsworthy Court session grew inconspicuous. The Chief Justice announced that he would read the Court's decision concerning...
...hard reactionary Justice, but famed Liberal Louis Dembitz Brandeis read the opinion. Prime point: in depriving a creditor of his just property the Act clearly violated the Constitution's "due process of law" clause. Brushing aside social considerations, Justice Brandeis declared...
...went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with a number of others from Buckingham Palace...