Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armful of bouquets from them- and a shower of brickbats from organized reporters. Over the protest of the American Newspaper Guild, President Roosevelt ordered the National Labor Relations Board to pass the case of Dean Sothern Jennings back to the Newspaper Code Authority's Industrial, Board for final settlement...
...Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek insists that "officially" Chinese Settlement Day, same as Chinese New Year's, is "unofficial." Actually on that day, which falls this year on Feb. 4, every due debt in China must be paid or the debtor irretrievably loses face...
...them to settle their debts in silver as usual on New Year's. Since silver is China's only medium of exchange, Chinese chambers of commerce sent bales of petitions to Nanking, begged their Government to give them at least temporary relief from Roosevelt by announcing that Settlement Day is postponed for one year. Until very recently the Nanking Government's prestige was far too low for chambers of commerce to dream of asking Generalissimo Chiang to proclaim relief from an old Chinese custom made intolerable by the New Deal...
...incident was referred for settlement to two commissioners of arbitration appointed under the U. S.-British liquor treaty of 1924. One was precise, deliberate Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court. The other was the Canadian Supreme Court's bland, blue-eyed, brilliant Justice Lyman Poore Duff, who relaxes for sleep with calculus problems and long corresponded in Greek with the late Lord Haldane. Years passed. Justice Duff was upped to Chief Justice of Canada. Justice Van Devanter saw burgeon in the U. S. a New Deal. Prohibition passed and the I'm Alone...
...note the importance not of what the Court said, but of what it left unsaid. From this viewpoint one may realize that the decision is not of world-shaking importance, proving either that the Constitution is outmoded or that the recovery program is unconstitutional, but a simple legal settlement of a technical question involving...