Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take a broad view of recovery legislation. Widely advertised as victories for the Administration were the Minnesota mortgage moratorium (TIME. Jan. 15) and New York milk cases. In each instance the Supreme Court lined up 5-to-4 in favor of the New Deal: Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Brandeis. Stone, Roberts, Cardozo against dissenting Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, Van Devanter. But thoughtful conservatives point out that those cases did not involve Federal legislation and that since the laws in question were passed by Legislatures, the additionally ticklish question of State rights was to be considered. Furthermore, the legislation under scrutiny...
...honor of General Tsai Ting-kai, Harry Whinna Nice, Republican candidate for Governor of Maryland, hurried off to attend a meeting of his campaign finance committee at the home of a Baltimore banker. In the banker's dark and unfamiliar garden, Candidate Nice toppled down a short flight of stone steps, fractured his right arm. Arm and shoulder in plaster cast, he continued to campaign...
...midst of a campaign for renomination. Wisconsin's 69-year-old Governor Albert George Schmedeman, Democrat, stepped from a speaking platform last month, slipped on a loose stone, wrenched his left foot, continued his campaign. Last week, in severe pain, he bedded himself in a Madison hospital where surgeons amputated his infected leg above the knee, felt he had "every chance" for recovery...
Rising sand-clouds from the West blew relentlessly across the stone-edge plain. Formations of loess dropped in dismaying array on huddled figures before shivering animals. Superstitious yellow-men wrapped themselves deeper into fur-lined garments and earth-colored birds took safety in fight toward the East. Sky and land fused together in one great maelstrom of motion. Here was storm over Asia...
...Harvard team, as it tried to shift with the Bates line. The tackles would pull out to meet the shift and the guards would remain stolidly in their accustomed positions. There was just the hole that Mr. Wellman & Co. were looking for. A little push on the part of Stone, the gigantic Bates tackle and the backs were through the line for plenty of ground...