Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unlike the President's proposal for the Supreme Court, the law providing for the appointment of a fifth member will not permanently increase the size of the Third Circuit Court. It provides that when a death or retirement takes place, the Court shall revert to four members...
...Glover and Henry Russell Ames Memorial Aid" for the year 1936-37 to Mr. John B. Bowditch, President of the Student Council and former President of the CRIMSON. The award to Mr. Bowditch has been made without stipend, and the funds which would normally go with the award will revert to the general Council Aid Fund for assignment to students who are in especial need of financial assistance. The Ames Memorial Aids were established by, the Council in November, 1935, and are awarded to a Junior or Senior who has shown energy in helping himself and who, as well, exhibits...
...disregarding a fundamental tenet of American democracy, the independence of the judiciary. The Court long been inviolate to both parties and unless it remains so the entire structure of the Federal Government will be altered. Last November the issue was not raised. President Roosevelt is willing to revert to the discredited methods of Republican Reconstructionists. No reading of history, no twisting of logic can support a policy of packing the Court, whatever the ends in view...
...Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.), who only last week succeeded in getting assurance that the Reich would not confiscate his $40,000 prize. *To this 100% ambiguous statement, mildly uttered, Der Führer may at any time characteristically revert with angry vigor, making it mean then that Germany "claims" the colonies now under the British, French and other League Mandates "taken away from her after the World War," but such was not the meaning his amicable tone conveyed last week. †Reichsbank President Schacht, Foreign Minister von Neurath, Finance Minister von Krosigk, Chief of Staff...
Escheat. In the contest for Henrietta Garrett's $20,000,000 estate is the State of Pennsylvania, which asserts there are no legal heirs, therefore the fortune must escheat, i.e., revert to the State under intestate laws. Also plugging for the money is Administrator Starr, whose claim that Mrs. Garrett's phrase "Give you" meant he should get all left after paying out $62,500 will be presented in court by former U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper, a Philadelphia lawyer. Mr. Starr has already received some Garrett snuff money. His brother, the late Isaac Starr, was named...