Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your second mistake is much the same. You say that the Right Hon. E. A. Lapointe might be Prime Minister of Canada "if he were British." As a Canadian, and therefore a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Mr. Lapointe would be the first to tell you that he was British. The people of English-speaking Canada do not doubt that he is British-in that sense. The fact that he has a French name, is of French race, and speaks the French language as his mother tongue, are not barriers in Canada...
...nominate the Mayor of Warsaw for your Man of the Year, even if the award must be made posthumously. His radio appeals rank second only to Colonel Travis' letters from the Alamo in 1836, and his fate, no doubt, will be the same...
...President of the United States, "or only vice president of a barber shop," will, when it comes time for him to go, wish to feel that no one can bear to have him leave. Therefore, "there never was a President who did not want to be elected for a second term, and never was there a President who, having served two terms, did not want to be able to refuse a third term...
...other now-famous decisions which typified the conservatives' views: the 1927 journeymen stonecutters' case, the 1930 Baltimore Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone shipped into their territory. In the second, conservatives ruled that a fare fixed by the State of Maryland, which permitted the railway a 6¼% rate of return, was "confiscatory," that the company was entitled to a return of 7½% or more...
...District Court found for the stockholder lawyer in one case, against him on technical grounds in the other, but the cases were fought on into the U. S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where Martin Manton was senior judge. Judge Manton was already so hard-pressed for cash that he often borrowed money from friends...