Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes that if his spear has wounded an enemy who escaped, he can make the wound fester by thrusting the spearpoint into a fire. He must take extreme care in disposing of his hair cuttings, his nail parings, his spittle and his excrement lest these things which remain a vital part of him fall into hostile hands. More abstruse forms of wizardry he claims to know nothing about, pointing out reasonably that if he knew how they were performed he would be a wizard himself...
...constitutionality of three prime New Deal measures, cleared the path to final judgment by the Supreme Court. Two measures went on their way with court curses, one with a blessing. AAA. Taking its cue from the Supreme Court, the first Federal Circuit Court in Boston found AAA's vital processing taxes as illegal as NRA's codes, and for the same reasons. A U. S. District Court had rejected the suit of receivers for Hoosac Mills Corp, to escape payment of $81,694 in processing and floor taxes levied by AAA. Reversing that decision, the Circuit Court condemned...
...Bonus Senator Robinson refused to dodge. The vital vote was not on the President's veto but, before that, on the choice between the Bonus-plain (on which a veto might not have been sustained) and the Bonus-with-greenbacks (on which a veto could be sustained). Leader Robinson and a little band of devoted Roosevelt followers grimly voted for what they least of all wanted-green-backs-so that the veto could be sustained...
...vote margin last month the Senate had approved vital Section 11 of the Wheeler-Rayburn Public Utility Bill, providing that unessential holding companies more than one degree removed from operating companies should be dissolved by the Securities & Exchange Commission within seven years. This was precisely what President Roosevelt wanted. Then Power scored twice in quick succession. For drastic Section 11 the House Interstate Commerce Committee substituted a milder regulatory measure, directing SEC to limit each holding company's operations to one integrated public-utility system. When a poll of House Democrats showed the Administration upward of 30 votes...
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON: Beloved teacher and learned scholar, a former member of our faculty, now a leader in a vital experiment in education--the training of the college woman of today...