Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since joining the Court last year, Hugo LaFayette Black has been its most spectacular dissenter. In his total of 13 dissents he has entered nine solitary dissents to four for Justice McReynolds, one each for Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed the liberal tone of Justice Black's dissenting opinions, particularly one in which he contradicted the Court's 50-year-old interpretation of the 14th Amendment as applying to corporations.* Last month, however, a Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year...
...Italian peasants had finally increased their wheat yield in 15 years from an average of under ten quintals (36.7 bu.) per hectare (2.47 acres) to somewhat over 16. Thus, without much increasing Italy's total wheat acreage, which was impossible, total yearly production was increased from 45 million quintals to 80 million. Since the Italian people continue to eat about 75 million quintals, this meant that Premier Mussolini had won the "battle of the grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), made Italy-self-sufficient in wheat for the first time in modern history...
...Twain's fabulous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," is the sports event of the year. On Angels Camp's main street thronged 35,000 spectators, including overdressed cinema celebrities to watch the two-day classic. The rules: 1) three jumps to a frog, the total distance to count as official; 2) each frog might be shaken thoroughly to discover if he had been fed buckshot to hold him down...
...Communist Party, U. S. A. Its most galling volleys are reserved for its rival gang, Leon Trotsky and his followers. So bitter has this battle become that unwritten codes have been forgotten: the other gang finally called a cop. The Daily Worker is now being sued for a total of $745,000 in damages for libel...
...petroleum structure or 7,680 acres in any one State. Big companies have dominated more territory than this, however, through prospecting permits and operating contracts with prospectors. Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes ruled that the companies must include such territory in their list of holdings and (he total must cleave to the law. Object: to keep down overproduction, give wider scope to the small independents...