Word: voided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court upheld the right of Congress -under the Constitutional power of regulating money-to void gold clauses in private bonds. But no such clean bill of health was given the Government in abrogating the gold clauses of its own bonds. Government bondholders were denied the right to sue in the Court of Claims on the somewhat extraordinary grounds that it is impossible to tell how much damage they have suffered since it is now illegal to own gold. However, the Court did not uphold the propriety of the Government's offering devalued money in place of old-size dollars...
...hide & seek with the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.) MacCracken was caught, sentenced to ten days in jail for contempt of the Senate. He appealed all the way to the Supreme Court which last week told him that it would not void his sentence...
...gold clauses if they can do so without sacrificing what they regard as vital principles. Several ingenious compromises are, however, open to the Court. Example: By upholding Mr. Cummings' contention that private persons who wrote gold clauses were squatting on the public domain, the Court could void such claims in private bonds but make the Government pay what is nominated in its own bonds, since obviously the Government cannot squat on its own domain...
...George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's solo flight from Honolulu to the U. S. last week could not have been more perfectly timed. A weekend recess in the Hauptmann trial cleared the front pages of the U. S. Press for a good spot-news story. To fill that void at that conspicuous moment was a bit of showmanship of which Publicist Putnam might well have been proud...
...primarily emergency measures. And last week a Federal Judge in Birmingham, Ala. seriously questioned whether TVA's vast power schemes were really incidental to the development of waterways. If they were not incidental, then they were obviously unconstitutional and the heart of the Tennessee Valley experiment was null & void...