Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allowing Congress to pass legislation which the Supreme Court has declared to be unconstitutional", continued Professor Babbitt, "is equivalent to declaring the constitution void. La Follette represents, therefore, part of a dangerous trend in this country to discredit the judiciary, and ultimately to undermine and weaken the veto power of the constitution upon popular impulse...
...meeting the extraordinary requirements of the California electoral law. In one day, each of these 50,000 persons affixed his signature thirteen times to the petition to place Independent Progressive electors on the ballot. This action of the electorate one judge out of seven how declares null and void. Fortunately, while the will of the people has been thwarted, there is a way out for them. They can still register their support of the Independent Progressive candidacy by voting for the Progressive electors named on the Socialist ticket...
...join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduate or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and countrary to the spirit of this agreement...
Last week, at Houston, Tex., four super-enthusiasts teed their balls at night by a flashlight's glare, drove through an inky void toward another flashlight on the putting green. No penalty was levied for lost balls, of which the foursome had but three in their 18 holes. Each player had his ball marked in luminous paint for identification. Low score for the evening...
...Sciences Politiques; became an expert in financial affairs. In his earlier 'days it was said of him that he was "well-dressed, dashing, impertinent, conceited." Many were the complaints of his hauteur. Before the War his political star several times slipped from its position of ascendancy behind the void of the horizon. Ex-Premier Clemenceau once said: "I have two Ministers with whom I can do nothing; one is Briand, the other is Caillaux. One thinks he is Christ, the other thinks himself Napoleon." It was the Napoleonic streak that caused Caillaux to spurn his Foreign Minister and his Ambassadors...