Humphrey

[huhm-free]

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noun

Duke of Gloucester, 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
Doris, 1895–1958, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
Hubert H(oratio), 1911–78, U.S. politician: vice president 1965–69.
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “high” and “peace.”

Humphrey

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noun

See Gloucester
Hubert Horatio. 1911–78, US statesman; vice-president of the US under President Johnson (1965–69)

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And we need to talk prospectively about what this means, especially on our friend Humphrey and his executor, and what that actually means.

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You begin with John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, a utopian religious group in the mid-19th century.

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I think it’s important to be clear that the sentence “Humphrey’s Executor has been overruled” appears nowhere in this order.

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And 90 years ago, in a case called Humphrey’s Executor, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Congress can protect commissioners on multimember agencies from presidential removal, as it did here.

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Now, with Humphrey’s functionally dead, he can deploy “independent” agencies like the FTC and the FCC to do the same.

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