Word: voided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answering the statement that the New Deal measures have helped business, Sullivan referred to the drop in the stock market when the NRA and AAA were passed and the subsequent rise when they were declared void by the court. He went on to call the administration the most remarkable political matchine of all time and summed up their political and economic philosophy as "Hell bent for election...
...torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand," set aside the sentences. Having contributed to the dramatic tension by putting human rights first, Chief Justice Hughes took up property rights next. The case: minority preferred stock-holders of Alabama Power Co. who asked that the Supreme Court void the sale by that company of a transmission line to TVA on the ground that TVA was unconstitutional. The long-awaited hour had come. The crowd craned their necks to catch every word. The Chief Justice spoke with unusual deliberation, pausing now & then to peer at his audience. The first...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...
...inherited a share (estimated at $3,500,000) of his estate; by Mrs. Virginia de Landa, his daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In her petition, Mrs. de Landa charged Mrs. Willys with divorcing her first husband on fraudulent grounds, asked that her marriage to Willys be declared null & void, that she be enjoined from claiming any part of Willys' estate...
...second issue on this week's ballot Cambridge sentiment likewise duplicated that of the country by voting 55 per cent for declaring void 5-4 decisions of the Supreme Court adversely affecting acts of Congress...