Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of a superman the autocrat is, he and his followers must face the truth that death takes no holiday. Modern style dictatorship is distinctly a post-war phenomenon, and as a result, Father Time has not had the opportunity to show his long-suspected preference for democratic rule. Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, are all young men and very much in the saddle. Not only has their power just started, but they own their very positions in large measure to their magnetic appeal to the youth of their countries...
Justice Roberts not only voted against it but wrote the majority opinion. He ruled that the act would have taken property from the railroads without due process of law because it arbitrarily pooled the pension liabilities of different roads. More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce. Said he: "It is an attempt for social ends to impose by sheer fiat non-contractual incidents upon the relation of employer and employe, not as a rule or regulation of commerce and transportation between the states but as a means of assuring a particular...
Distribution will pass from the Harvard scene beginning with the Class of 1939, according to a vote of the Faculty which was announced yesterday. Recognizing a policy of self-education by the student, the new rule will make no requirements on his curriculum except that he can take no more than eleven courses in any one field...
...modifying the general rule, it has been decided to retain the present decree that German A, C, D, French A, or prescribed English, and not more than one course in Military or Naval Science may be counted as distribution...
...last two innings of the April game were played under protest by Princeton. The controversy resulted from the interpretation of a ground rule by the umpire when the catcher's throw in an attempt to catch a runner off first base went into an outfield overflow crowd...