Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that decision, the Court hit bot tom in popular opinion, but soon commenced its steady rise to awesome heights. Until last week the nearest thing to a suggestion of Presidential tinkering was in 1912 when, attempting a comeback, Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin flirted publicly with the idea of recall of unpopular judges, actually plumped for re-call of judicial decisions in his Progressive platform. Wrote Felix Frankfurter in 1934: "Certainly neither the Presidency nor the Congress has better withstood the fluctuating winds of popular opinion than the Supreme Court. Despite intermittent popular movements against it, the Court...
...long session on Spain with Mussolini. Crisply he said that Europe's first task must be to end Spain's war, that no other European problem of consequence can be solved until that has been accomplished, that Spain is potentially much more apt to give rise to a general European war this year than was Ethiopia last year. "You make me impatient when you talk about Democracy," Il Duce told Mrs. McCormick. "You talk as if it existed or could exist in this 20th Century world of machines and mass production, as if we were still living...
...started in 1933, its peak is expected in 1939. Sunspots appear to be the mouths of whirling funnels of gas originating in the solar interior. It has been suggested that the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is the cause of the internal commotion which gives rise to sunspots...
Aside from the financial difficulties foreshadowed by another drop in receipts this fall, and by last year's curtailment of minor sports, the hypocrisy and bad feeling which professionalism imposes and its resulting wear and tear on nerves and morals has given rise to much thought on possible alternatives or modifications of the present intercollegiate set up. The intra-mural scheme is one of these alternatives and it is this system which is up for consideration today. Does it work? Should it work better? Is there another system which would solve the problem more satisfactorily? Is it the logical solution...
...from $55,290,000 in 1935 to $62,500,000 in 1936, Pennsylvania that passenger business was up from $60,000,000 to $67,500,000. But neither was prepared to admit that the low fare increased their income, noting that prior to June, traffic was already on the rise...