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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-liked, generous, hostess-hounded bachelor who wants some day to marry, Hart has probably made more than $1,000,000 in show business. He is chary of discussing finances. Says he: "I have so many relatives. . . . Why, my aunt has only to read a good review in the Times and there's another operation...
Congress Defends. Last week, one month after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the S.E.U.A. case (dismissed last year by the Atlanta District Court), the House Judiciary Committee voted out, 16-to-5, a bill that would flatly affirm the industry's We-Are-Not-Commerce defense: ". . . Nothing contained in the , . . Sherman Act, or the . . . Clayton Act, shall be construed to apply to the business of insurance." The Senate Judiciary Committee is getting ready to report out an identical bill, introduced by Indiana's bespectacled, hard-shelled Frederick Van Nuys and North Carolina's implacable...
...what sort of rudeness moved TIME to call PM "hyperthyroid" and refer to its "characteristic shrillness" in the very same press review, despite your admission that PM's reporter "Beichman was right?" Is it fair and in good taste to sling muddy insinuations at another publication without provocation...
Marshall v. Jefferson. Professor Commager's book is subtitled "a study in Jeffersonian democracy and judicial review." For the most part it is an attack aimed at the Supreme Court. In his distrust of judges, Professor Commager echoes Thomas Jefferson's opinion that Chief Justice Marshall was "a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning." When Jefferson became President, one of the first things he did was to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he regarded as unconstitutional. Professor Commager thinks that Jefferson was quite within...
...there have been occasional departures by the States from high standards of constitutional integrity. But if two States were to quarrel over the right to tax the estate of an individual, what then? Professor Commager is not concerned with hypothetical cases. But if there were no system of judicial review, many hypothetical cases might become reality...