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The Supreme Court ruled, by vote of 7 to 2, that liquor is legal on U. S. ships outside the three-mile limit. Thus, for the first time since the prohibition amendment went into effect, the highest tribunal in the land has given comfort to the wets.
Stuyvesant Fish died in New York of heart disease. A directors' meeting of the National Park Bank was assembling. As Mr. Fish stepped across the threshold of the board room, he fell dead. So terminated the career of one of the country's great financial leaders and railroad...
" In a nation where disfranchisement is a punishment for crime, more than half the men and women of 21 and over choose to disfranchise themselves. ... In 1920 there were 54,421,832 men and women in the United States eligible to vote. Only 26,705,246 voted." ¶ If At...
The decision in the minimum wage case has most dangerous possibilities. Any amendment which would provide for the true contingencies on the theory that the Supreme Court will be a reactionary body would probably strike at the foundations of the constitution. Resort is therefore being had to the suggestion that...
Some newspapers have intimated that the decision, which related to a District of Columbia statute passed by Congress, would not be considered binding in the event that a state law came before the Court. The power of Congress is limited by the Fifth Amendment and that of the states by...