Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alcoholic liquors, ought in itself to convince the most skeptical that Prohibition prohibits." Senator Harreld of Oklahoma: "Oklahoma was born a Prohibition state and is standing true to the faith of its forefathers." Representative Hill of Alabama: "Great as is the victory the course is not yet finished." Senator Sheppard of Texas: "Prohibition in the United States is both a permanency and a success." Dr. Ben Spence of Toronto: "Canada is bounded on the south by the Volstead Act, but it's somewhat leaky." Senator Willis of Ohio: "If any one comes to Cleveland with a wet plank...
...Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas, delivered a speech eulogizing President Wilson and reviewing the origin and progress of the League of Nations...
...Preston Hollow, N. Y., Irwin, Seymour Rosenbaum 3L of Cincinnati, O., and Benjamin Isadore Sperling 3L of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The members of the Gray Club who aided the preparation of the complainant's brief were Thatcher John Kemp 3L of Los Angeles, Cal., and James Carroll Sheppard Jr. 3L of Fullerton...
...members are college graduates. There are probably more Phi Beta Kappa keys present than in Congress. Many study law on the side. Others are preparing themselves for active politics. So far women have been exclu'ded. Such men as Senator William J. Harris of Georgia, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, Representatives Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, Fritz G. Lanham of Texas, Addison T. Smith of Idaho, Wallace H. White of Maine, have risen from their ranks. The "Little Congress" is not so little...
...liberalism of the Supreme Court, much impugned when it nullified the District of Columbia minimum wage law for women, was apparently revived by two of its latest acts. One was to decline to consider the constitutionality of the Sheppard-Towner Bill for maternity welfare instruction. This disposes of the bill only temporarily, however, and it may again come before the Court. The other was to declare unconstitutional the forbidding of instruction in foreign languages in elementary schools, public, private or parochial...