Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Building & Loan Association foreclosed a mortgage on the home of John & Rosala Blaisdell. The Blaisdells went to court, asked for a two-year moratorium in accordance with a new law passed by the Minnesota Legislature. The case reached the U. S. Supreme Court where it was regarded as a test of the legality of all governmental emergency powers. Last week the Supreme Court upheld Minnesota, 5-to-4. Prime conclusion: an economic emergency, like fire, flood or earthquake, gives a state power to set aside contracts...
...York Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn last week was that Betty Beuschel, onetime Long Island chambermaid, had a 2-year-old son. Miss Beuschel claimed that one Jacob Manowitz, Long Island real estate dealer, fathered her child, asked damages. He denied the charge and invoked the Landsteiner blood test to establish his disclaimer...
Ordering girl & child to give specimens of blood to match against the man's, the Brooklyn justice declared: "Research of medical journals and foreign law reports discloses that many thousands of similar cases have been before the courts of European nations. The Landsteiner blood grouping test is generally accepted by the medical profession. . . . Neither plaintiff nor child would, in the slightest degree, be injured...
...Walter Lawrence Bierring, president-elect of the American Medical Association: "I doubt very much that such a thing is possible, and I know of no scientific test which would prove or disprove the findings of the court...
...arrived at, said General Johnson, "in a goldfish bowl." July 27-With heavy industry lagging behind in the codification march, the President sends 5,000.000 "re-employment agreements" to 5,000,000 employers of whom 3,000,000 sign. The Blue Eagle is born. "A truce on selfishness, a test of patriotism," cried General Johnson. Aug.5-National Labor Board is created to settle the wave of strikes created by the resurgence of organized Labor. Aug. 19-"The most memorable date in NRA history." It is sweltering in Washington. Since early morning, Administrator Johnson has been toiling with three groups...