Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the Freshman, Vin Freedley defeated M. Lopez 3-1; Kim Canavarro overcame S. Robinson 3-2; Jim Ronsmaniere beat W. Cobb; Bill Wood set back C. Worthen 3-1, and Charles Whiting lost to A. Richardson...
...remaining lectures of the series, following the one on on Dante, will include "Goethe," February 24, by John A. Walz, professor of German Language and Literature; "Chaucer," March 3, by Fred N. Robinson, Gurney. Professor of English Literature; and Austotle," March 10, by William C. Greene, associate professor of Greek and Latin...
...pleased by the President's move. Newshawks who immediately made surveys of Congressional sentiment agreed that the bill would be passed without serious difficulty. Save for routine Republican objections, little criticism was voiced at the Capitol in the first 24 hours following the shock of its reception. Senator Robinson promised that it would receive "favorable consideration...
Senate support of the bill was not strengthened by the President's criticism of oldsters, nor by the fact that Senators like Robinson of Arkansas and Wagner of New York, who have been considered for the first vacancies on the Supreme Court, will not be eligible for any of the new posts proposed.* Senator Van Nuys of Indiana, a member of the Judiciary Committee, announced that he would insist on the Justices of the Supreme Court being called to give their views on the bill. Promptly several other members backed...
Senator Joe Robinson ejaculated: "I repudiate the implication . . . that the Constitution of my country and yours renders the national Government power less to relieve distress. . . . There is prac tically no limitation on the appropriating power of Congress except that which is imposed by conscience and a sense of duty. ... I would hide my face in shame if I held that there is no power save that possessed by those who are helpless to face the storm and peril...