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Three years ago last week, in slickers and galoshes, under umbrellas and sodden newspapers, thousands of U. S. citizens stood on the great plaza before the Capitol, saw skullcapped Charles Evans Hughes swear in bareheaded Franklin Delano Roosevelt to uphold and defend the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Moral Climate | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...ministers are men of God, and they say God tells them that the Allies are fighting a righteous war. They have taken their stand solemnly, and we may assume that they will stand by it, and preach for it, and defend it in the same spirit with which they uphold the most basic belief of their religious faith the very existence of God. But how likely is it that they will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 33 MEN OF GOD | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...declared felons, subject to fines (up to $5,000) and for imprisonment (up to five years), but peace officers always say that they have been overpowered by mobs and find witnesses to agree. How then, he argued, could the U. S. enforce such a law, even if the courts uphold its questionable constitutionality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Store | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...that Almighty hand guide and uphold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Indoor Sportsmanship | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Also "available" became bodacious, New-Deal-loathing Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. Y. publisher, and chairman of his own National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government. While Mr. Gannett was away (on a Western speaking tour), the office mice began to play, nominated him in an editorial written without his knowledge, and without his robust style. In Spokane, Wash., pleased Mr. Gannett bumbled: "No American . . . would decline the nomination if it were offered him.*Mr. Gannett had been nominated before: by British Press Peer Lord Beaverbrook last year (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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