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...down at lunch in the White House. Afterwards they spent the afternoon in private conclave. The President made a speech urging State coöperation in preventing immigrant and liquor smuggling and in enforcing prohibition. In a following discussion Governors Ritchie and Smith were the only ones who voiced dissent from the President's remarks. They objected to the Volstead Act as an invasion of state rights, as unenforcible and as contrary to public opinion. Before departing the Governors adopted a platform suggested by the President: 1) to coördinate Federal and local enforcement agencies; 2) to call on the press...
Justices Taft, Holmes and Sanford in honorable dissent from the minimum wage decision...
...foregone conclusion that the resolution will be defeated. Liberals and Conservatives have already intimated their dissent. Labor is in a peculiar position; to support the motion would be to lose many Liberals who look to a strong coalition, and to oppose it means the loss of a considerable part of the labor backing. But Ramsey Macdonald, head of the Labor Party, by his recent friendly overtures from King George seems to have edged towards the side of conservative reform. If England's industries will not be taken over by the government as a result of this proposal, at least...
...with gin and vermouth, or one sovereign, as with whiskey and soda. A New Jersey court has decided in favor of whiskey and soda, and Governor Coolidge, with a firmness that brings a tear to dry eyes, and a lump to dry throats, yet withal wisely, has declined to dissent from the opinion...
...later dispute between England and France; how Lincoln was one of the only two men to vote right in the Illinois Legislature on a bill that touch the most impassioned issue of that day. Is there among us in America none of that pride that makes famous Englishmen dissent from the enraged majority no matter how hot the issue? In a time like this to be free means for a while to be misunderstood. Why not? Is the intellectual life to be all flabby, with no rugged stretches? Is hardihood to exist only in the body? Let us hear...