Word: voided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that when founded the Court was to serve two principal ends: it was to serve as a healthy brake on dangerous democratic tendencies among the people; and it was to fill out the meaning of a Constitution purposely left vague by its writers. The power to declare legislative enactments void may never have been intended for the Court; historians still disagree. Surely the extraordinary veto powers assumed by the 1932-36 body of nine old men was never envisaged...
Philadelphia's great ache came from the great void of its treasury. For 55 years the city has been under the uninterrupted control of a Republican machine, its destiny in the hands of "Gas House" Jim McManes, Boies Penrose, the late Ed and Bill Vare. In the '20s a City Hall spending crew, whooped on by Contractors Vare & Vare & Jerry Louchheim, built subways, parkways, museums, public buildings, sank $50,000,000 into the Sesqui-Centennial...
First committee business was to pronounce "null & void" the agreement signed last March by Czech President Emil Hacha. which made Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. The Committee can now conscript Czechs and Slovaks living in France and Great Britain into a Czechoslovak Legion headed by 45-year-old General Sergej Ingr, named Commander in Chief. Meanwhile, one of the Committee's problems will be to dissuade Czechs under German rule from futile revolts. Onetime Minister to the Court of St. James's Jan Masaryk warned his countrymen over the BBC that the present was not a propitious...