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Avery Brundage, 64, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, is an old hand at sizing up Olympic talent. Last week, after watching the Los Angeles relays, Brundage could no longer restrain his enthusiasm. "With just those boys we had out there tonight," he said, "we can win the Olympic track and field events. I'd say We're going to have the best team we ever had." Some reasons for the Brundage exuberance, even though chilly weather cut down a few performances: ¶ Manhattan College's 440-and 880-yard relay team (Jack O'Connell...
...Hello, Boss." Next morning in a Washington courtroom, the companies made their first legal move to regain possession of their properties. Their request for a temporary order to restrain the President from seizing the mills was promptly rejected by District Judge Alexander Holtzoff. He was not sure whether or not his court could issue an injunction against the President of the U.S. A glum collection of steelmen stalked into Secretary Sawyer's office. Cracked U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless, with a sour grin: "Hello Boss...
...deals with the people who were in on the first one, and 3) junior members of these banking groups, when they get a deal to handle themselves, repay the big boys by asking them to join. By this "syndicate system," said the Government, all the defendants had-conspired to restrain and monopolize trade...
...Doktor, a prince among Moselles, that was 17 years old and still displayed its fine breeding and sprightly elegance; and few indeed are they who would deny that the 1921 Piesporter Goldtropfchen was brilliant as late as 1939. As for the author's patronizing dismissal of Montrachet, I will restrain myself from protracted disputation, except to ask if he has had the good fortune in recent years to have tasted the 1908 vintage, which I daresay he would concede a wine of truly celestial delicacy. Nonetheless, I should like in conclusion to commend the author, whoever...
...state" (i.e., the welfare state), because in its ponderous administrative machinery there is a dangerous blurring of administrative and judicial functions. When an. administrative agency acquires judicial functions in this way, the temptation is to shape laws in line with a stated policy, not merely to interpret them. To restrain these agencies there are few checks, no "taught tradition . . . Some today say that the law is power, where we used to think of it as a restraint upon power...