Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human rights." Occasion of that debate was the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice. He was finally confirmed by vote of 52-to-26. Before that took place those who opposed him thoroughly aired their opinion that he was too closely connected with conservatism and entrenched wealth. Half the Senators who voted against him are now dead or retired, but of those who remain the great majority are today opposed to President Roosevelt's Court plan: Borah, Glass, Connally, George, Hiram Johnson, Nye, Wheeler. Vice-versa, Senators Ashurst and Pat Harrison, both now pro-Roosevelt, were then...
Despite the fact that Cornell swamped the Elis up at Ithaca, the Yale team is going to be a lot stronger when they come to the Garden for this meet; for the Blue team has a wealth of strength in the field events, and with reasonable luck they should win all four of the events they took at Cornell. That makes 20 points right there, a considerable total in a meet that may be decided with 32 or 33 points. And while Yale piles up points in the field events, Harvard and Dartmouth may very probably so cut into Cornell...
Behind General Knudsen and his Generalissimo President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. stood G. M.'s mighty masters, the du Ponts, Chairman Lammot, Directors Pierre, Irénée and Henry, with all their own prodigious resources of wealth and power, plus those of the great industries linked with motors by business and financial interdependence, and in a common defense against John Lewis' offensive. On the battle's outcome, informed observers agreed, hung the whole future of U. S. industrial relations...
...indoors to be united in civil marriage by the Burgomaster of The Hague, and to sign the register. No Dutch burgomaster ever omits to lecture a Dutch couple on this occasion severely and at great length, pointing out that marriage is no bed of roses, duty comes before pleasure, wealth is the visible reward of industrious virtue, and honesty the inescapable policy. This Dutch-uncle lecture, and the smart blow of the Burgomaster's gavel with which he knocked the pair down to each other, Juliana & Bernhard bore with placid disregard of how much time was passing...
...result, the public service of Mr. Landis must be ranked as one of the brightest spots in the New Deal record. He takes to the direction of the Harvard Law School a wealth of training with concrete human problems. He left a professorship of law to perform this important public service. He returns with an experience that cannot fail to influence the course of legal training for a generation to come...