Word: reports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus one day last week did Franklin Roosevelt, who has often told correspondents what to write, seize an opportunity to report on himself. His cruiser, U. S. S. Houston lay anchored off Albemarle Island, largest of Ecuador's twelve-island Galapagos group...
...have long excelled at keeping him in the news by tying up his activities to wars, droughts and other Grade A news events. An extreme example of this art was provided by Secretary Early one day when the President himself did nothing of interest at Galapagos. The official news report from the Houston announced that landing parties tried to pump the settlers about Baroness Eloise Wehrborn, the queer German woman who. wearing silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver, sought to "rule" the island several years ago until she and her retinue of young males came to mysterious ends...
...left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...
Before adjourning, the A. B. A. received from its committee on administrative law a searching critique of administrative agencies, summarizing what lawyers think about alphabetical administration as of 1938. This report said that administrative justice now suffers from the following tendencies: ¶ To decide without a hearing, or without hearing one of the parties. ¶ To decide on the basis of matters or on evidence not before the tribunal. ¶ To make decisions on the basis of preformed opinions and prejudices. ¶ To act rather than decide. ¶ To disregard jurisdictional limits. ¶ To do what will...
...Considered taxing future issues of State and Federal bonds, heretofore taxexempt. Sent to the Treasury by the Department of Justice was a five-volume report offering the opinion that such taxation would probably be upheld by the Supreme Court "under the present trend" but should not be made retroactive. Opposition meanwhile gathered quietly in a group of men representing 17 States and called the Conference on State Defense. It was said to fear that the New Deal, having taxed everything from U. S. bonds to U. S. credulity, might next try taxing the States themselves...