Word: vast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest which he and other eminent legalists, in & out of the American Bar Association, have been making since long before the New Deal: that the administrative departments and independent agencies of the Government (notoriously the Federal Trade Commission in Republican days, the NLRB and SEC more lately) have compiled vast tomes of offhand, capricious rulings which have the force of law and from which there is no clear recourse...
...Walter-Logan Bill provides recourse through the Federal Circuit Courts and up to the Supreme Court, thus throwing vast legal jungles open to immediate appeal (and possible exploitation). Moreover, the bill imposes strict rules upon administrative officers and employes for making their decisions public and in writing for all to see. Damages are provided for injured appellants. The Department of Justice dislikes the act because it goes so far, and because a committee appointed by Frank Murphy is working on the same subject, might well produce a monument...
...best, of course, were tiger pictures, and the best of the tiger pictures was the vast 0 China, Roar Like These Tigers panel which last spring crowded 3,000 visitors into the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, helped bring its creator a decoration from President Lebrun of France. Its 21 down-leaping tigers represent China's war-awakened provinces. Of their models, said Chang: "It is just as well about the tigers' dying. I am an old man and tigers need a strong master; hereafter I paint from memory...
...public health, employment service and the Office of Education. On condition that his friends be allowed to keep on booming him, radiant Mr. McNutt accepted. Proclaimed he: I am appreciative of the tremendous responsibility of administering such a program. There are some who say that it is too vast to be workable, too ambitious to be realized. I do not hold with these critics for a moment. This program can be built into human benefits unheard of, by the hard work, the planning, the cooperation and the sacrifices of citizens and sincere public officers in county, State and nation...
...close U. S. ports to shipments of cotton, copper, steel, wheat to Britain and France. In the last war most of pre-1917 U. S. trade with the Allies was in raw materials. They did most of their own fabrication of guns & powder. There is always Canada, where a vast system of U. S.-owned branch factories would most likely spring up to manufacture armament and airplanes for an anti-Hitler coalition. But an embargo on raw materials would mean the obsolescence of the American merchant marine, or at least its diversion to trade between neutrals in the western hemisphere...