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...Senate for confirmation. Because his appointment was discussed under the Senate's new open-session rules, all the world could follow the bitter ebb and flow of debate which a year ago would have been secret. Likewise thrown aside was the taboo that the Supreme Court is sacrosanct and thus above criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Dred Scott Cited | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...ascertain just why the Senators are so sacrosanct that one violates the properties in gazing at them through opera glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference: the avowedly Socialist Labor Cabinet harbors hopes of someday tampering even with sacrosanct War Bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Twentieth Century. She motors into town with her shopping list?sardines, bath salts, boots ? but hurries back to her country seat (same monastic manor) and sits on Queen Bess's chair, brushes her short hair with King James' silver brushes, bounces up and down on his sacrosanct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breeches to Crinolines | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Richard Ely Danielson is a master of fox hounds (Groton Hunt), edits The Sportsman (sport monthly), has no time for any but amateur sports. In the September issue of his magazine he flays William Tatem Tilden II, unfrocked racqueteer, for endorsing cigarets, giving interviews for pay, otherwise professionalizing sacrosanct tennis. Says Foxhunter-Editor Danielson: "We believe that the game should be cleansed ... of the shamateurs who now dominate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shamateurs | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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