Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition reads as follows: "We, the undersigned, members of the Harvard Law School, wish to convey our disapproval of the recent suggestion for increasing the membership of the Supreme Court of the United States. The precedent created by such action could only operate to partisan ends. We therefore urge the judiciary committee to report the proposed legislation unfavorably to the Senate...
...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on her right and the duck-hunting senior Associate Justice, Willis Van. Devanter, at her left. All the other members of the Court except liberal Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who, at 80, goes to no evening functions, and liberal Harlan F. Stone, recuperating from a recent illness, were ranged along the board according to precedence. Senator Ashurst and Representative Summers, heads of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, who before the week was out were to be handed a bill to dilute the power of the honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise Senator Borah...
...recent Fascist law forces sorely vexed Capitalists and landowners in Italy to buy Mussolini bonds up to a figure representing 5% of the value of their property. If they lack cash to buy these radical bonds they are forced to borrow it from the Government, paying interest on the loan. In Russia the financing of Five-Year Plans by forced loans is continually cleaning the pockets of the proletariat. In Germany moderate Adolf Hitler has greatest difficulty in restraining the arrant radicals of the Nazi Party led by such as Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who continually agitate to persuade...
...occupation of plants? Thirdly, can unions continue to have what Mr. Justice Brandeis called "practical immunity from legal liability," can they stave of, even in such instances as the present, incorporation or at least some sort of public supervision? The answer to all three questions was "yes" in the recent strike. The sit-down technique proved effective and invulnerable and will undoubtedly be tried increasingly in similar labor disputes...
This box was excavated by natives at Tell Abu-Maria, a village 20 miles west of Mosul. Another recent purchase is a collection of South-Arabian antiquities, including twelve short inscriptions on stone and small bas-reliefs on red sandstone...