Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Interstate Commerce Commission acted last week like ten schoolboys appointed to settled a schoolyard dispute. They made their decision, but like schoolboys, they knew that their teachers (in this instance the nine justices of the U. S. Supreme Court) would be the final arbiters. The dispute was over the valuation of U. S. railroads. It had been stewing a long time-since 1914 when the Esch-Cummins Act went into effect. By this Act Congress ordered the I. C. C. to reckon up the values of each of the U. S. railroads according to some fair formula...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...