Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Hughes was quoted above, unanimously denied the power of the Governor of Texas to establish martial law in an oil field for the purpose of carrying out a conservation policy entrusted by the Texas legislature to an administrative body resembling the Rhode Island Racing Commission, when the governor thought that the orders of the Texas commission were not sufficiently vigorous and also feared that those orders would be upset by the courts...
...interesting story. It was claimed that the reason he seldom portrayed Ricahrd was that his brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln the night he was playing that particular part. This fact gave him an aversion to the role. This has since been disproved and it is not now thought to be true...
Blaik, who at the time was preoccupied with some other business, replied in the affirmative without giving the matter much thought. It was in recalling this that the-third string back attempted to put his idea into practice...
...said McCray, "the atmosphere that pervaded all around was one surprisingly free of sincere apprehension, if what I thought I felt really bore out the true stimulus-individual-reaction sequence so well know to those of scientific bent. For fundamentally the Harvard-Dartmouth relationship is one of true sportsmanship, of the highest ideals, and of the utmost good faith...
Then the president of the college concerned appears--another stoutishly depicted person who says what Conant is thought to have said at the time--you have to take the Oath...