Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last was the respect in which the Earle law provided a parallel to the new Federal Wages-&-Hours Bill. And it was the respect in which it failed to pass the court. Including H. Edgar Barnes. Earle's appointee and the only Democrat on the bench, the seven justices ruled as though they were paraphrasing the U. S. Supreme Court's NRA opinion: that a legislature cannot legally "abdicate, transfer or delegate" its powers to an administrator...
...together. Lord Perth suggested that the Italian Government use its "discreet influence" with Generalissimo Franco to stop the bombings. Realizing that continued attacks might cause his good English friend to lose his job, Italy's dictator decided to "advise" his Spanish friend to: 1) respect the Union Jack on the high seas; 2) designate three ports in Leftist Spain where "honest traffic in goods under the international flag'' will be respected...
...start a movement for an international, nonpolitical medical organization with headquarters in traditionally neutral Switzerland, with autonomous supporting units in every civilized nation. With his driving push, with the notable help of Napoleon III, Dunant and his associates were able to induce 26 governments to sign agreements guaranteeing respect for the wounded, neutralizing military hospitals, protecting the material and personnel of medical services. Also agreed upon was the use of a white flag bearing a red cross* as the international symbol of sanctuary...
...been successful in its efforts to free itself of obligations that were indeed liable to endanger its neutrality. . . . The Swiss Government can therefore be assured that its determination to remain neutral at all times will find a corresponding determination on the part of the German Government to acknowledge and respect this neutrality," wrote Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano replied in almost identical terms...
...national church conclaves, passing resolutions pretending to bind the entire membership." But the pearls lay where they fell. The convention proceeded to do just what Moderator Babson had been inveighing against: It adopted a resolution* condemning sale of war materials to Japan, and one asking the Government to respect conscientious objectors in time of war, adjourned impenitent...