Word: un
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important respect the British North America Act differs radically from the U. S. Constitution: it awards all un-delegated powers to the central government. Nonetheless, the "States' Rights" issue which has proved so mortal to Franklin Roosevelt's legislative program was one with which Canada's six Supreme Court Justices (the seventh lately died) found themselves primarily concerned as they waded through 500,000 words of testimony. On the basis of provincial rights 25% of the legislative foundation of Canada's New Deal went by the board. Score: two laws constitutional, one partly constitutional, two unconstitutional...
...recent tax message to Congress President Roosevelt recommended a heavy tax on (1 moneys and credits, 2 incomes above $2,500 a year, 3 interstate business, 4 un distributed corporation profits, 5 all luxuries...
...George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit him at Yankee Stadium in 1934. To the defense that some might consider it an honor to be hit by the world's homerun king, Justice Lester Lazarus sniffed : "No doubt, but the plaintiff could not appreciate the honor, as he was knocked un conscious...
...than $100,000. Even that amount yields only $1,000 annually at the usual fee of 1%, Mr. Young's Young Management Corp. started with a big backlog of large ac counts, but it will also go after ones as small as $10,000. This is a virtually un touched field. The average U. S. investor with less than $100,000 generally depends upon his own wits or bankers and brokers where advice is not always unbiased. With simplified supervisory systems and a reasonable volume of business, Mr. Young hopes to bring the price of investment counsel service down...
...ideals. Professor France holds his own in following the slimy trail of corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton ($2). Consisting largely of jerky conversation, liberally peppered with dots and dashes, this unconventional murder tale is likely to antagonize the mystery-addict, despite the compelling, almost hypnotic quality of the characters. Non-Fiction THE HERITAGE OF THE CATHEDRAL...