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The most high-handed moment of his presidency--the attempt to pack the Supreme Court in 1937--is made the worse by his almost insane assertion that the Supreme Court was one of the "three horses" pulling the New Deal "plow."
In the same year, hatred of the high-handed Tory oligarchy in Upper Canada provoked a rebellion among small farmers and tradesmen beset by economic depression.
Within a year, the high-handed Resident in Perak, James Birch, was assassinated after brazen efforts to impose direct British government.
Still, substantial contributors to N. & Q . took issue with what they perceived as a rather high-handed attitude:
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