Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether there should be an Anglo-American trade agreement, for such a step between the two richest nations in the world would carry more weight than all the 15 trade agreements' so far negotiated. Question No. 2 was whether Britain can afford to make a trade agreement and become dependent on the U. S. for supplies which will be denied her by U. S. neutrality laws if an enemy attacks...
...Senate: ¶ Passed a bill extending until June 30. 1939 the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (continuing the $2,000,000.000 Stabilization Fund and the power of the President to fix the gold content of the dollar anywhere between 50% and 60% of its old weight); sent it to the House. ¶ Suspended its rules by unanimous consent in order to confirm without referring to committee the nomination of James Aloysius Farley as Postmaster General (only member of the Cabinet whose term of office automatically ends with that of the President); confirmed the nomination of Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary...
...appeal to the judiciary it was hardly likely to carry much weight. The Justices of the Supreme Court have the Preamble and Article I of the Constitution already by heart. The Court long ago declared that the Preamble was only a declaration of pious hope conferring no power on the Federal Government. Furthermore, the particular subject matter, NRA, on which the President made his appeal, happened to be the one major New Deal project which no member of the Court, liberal or conservative, found constitutional. Thus the likelihood of a reversal is negligible...
Despite the fact that the Sixth Commandment would seem to dispense with the possibility, it is theologically possible to postulate a just war. But just as this has been overlooked by those who look to the Papacy to stop another world conflagration, so it would be of no weight in preventing the Catholic Church from cracking down on any belligerent. A great Pope could outlaw any nation or nations...
...scorched his editorial nose by prematurely poking it into news of chemical drugs. It will be a long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report by Drs. Cutting & Tainter of San Francisco that dinitrophenol was a useful drug for fat people to take to reduce weight speedily. Dinitrophenol does reduce weight. But as Dr. Fishbein warily editorialized, ". . . it is a two-edged sword with appalling possibilities for harm as well as for good." It was soon found that dinitrophenol also causes cataracts, scarcity of white blood cells, other disabilities (TIME, July...