Word: voided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party machines he found U. S. Democracy. This brought His Lordship to his point, namely, that the House of Lords ought not to pass the India Bill (TIME, June 17) on second reading last week because it may give Indians a modicum of Democracy. "How are you going to void some great political machine's controlling the great masses of India?" cried Salisbury's son, urging that 350,000,000 Indians should remain under the benevolent rule of British civil servants...
Rather than boost rates to consumers so that Hydro could honor these sour contracts, Premier Hepburn proposes by act of the Ontario Parliament to repudiate them as "illegal, void & unenforceable...
...obligation of the Province. The money was sunk in tremendous hydro-electric developments up & down the rivers of Quebec. Last week, after weeks of preliminary rumblings, Premier Hepburn uprose in the Ontario Parliament in Toronto and begged leave to introduce a bill repudiating the contracts one & all as "illegal, void and unenforceable." While there appeared to be some question whether Hydro had not exceeded its authority, the Premier took no chance with the courts: his bill included a ban on suits against the Government...
...defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days in jail, Lawyer Hogan appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which last month refused to void the sentence...
Another sledge hammer blow has fallen on the New Deal and section 7A has been declared null and void. Of course an appeal will be taken, putting more work on the already overburdened shoulders of the Department of Justice. But this appeal will take some time before it is settled. Meanwhile the bill to extend the life of N. R. A. awaits passage...