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...houses, the size of lots, the height of buildings. A realty company brought suit, seeking to have the ordinance declared void. It finally reached the U. S. Supreme Court, which last week handed down a decision upholding the validity of zoning regulations. Justices Butler, McReynolds and Van Devanter dissented. Forthwith, many villages and cities began to look at their skylines and contemplate more stringent regulations...
...Defeat came last week to Nellie Tayloe Ross, Democrat, Governor of Wyoming. She lost by only 1,000 votes, but she is a thorough gentlewoman with a Rhodes Scholar son, so forthwith she despatched a telegram to her conqueror, Frank E. Emerson, Republican. Said she: "My congratulations and hope for a successful administration." Florence Ellinwood Allen, Ohio State Supreme Court Judge will hold a higher state office than any other woman...
...territory. In 1910, as presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention, he started Arizona off on the right foot with a "forward- looking document." President Taft, after ordering the clause on the recall of judges removed, signed the new constitution. Arizona became a state; Mr. Hunt became Governor, forthwith added the recall as an amendment. His career has been both stormy and paradoxical- hated by many, but seldom defeated, silent but aggressive, timid among friends but fearless among enemies, lusty cowpuncher foe of gamblers. Even his mustache is a paradox-once frowsy, now neatly waxed...
...Philadelphia, last week, a Negro boy tossed a rock at Helen and Beatrice Keifer, 21 and 23 years old, white. They reprimanded him. He sulked, dashed away, told his tribe that he had been whipped. Forthwith, hulking Negresses and little pickaninnies bestirred themselves; produced knives, whips, razors; set out to reprimand the Misses Keifer. In a restaurant the Misses Keifer were finishing their evening meal. The Negresses patted their weapons, waited until their victims came upon the street. The Misses Keifer emerged, saw, sprinted. They were overtaken-whips lashed across their backs-black paws ripped their clothing, tore at their...
...moment when announcement was made of an invitation to Secretary Mott to speak before the students of Loyola University (Catholic, S. J.). This is the first time that a Y. M. C. A. officer had been asked to address a Roman Catholic educational institution.* The Secretary expressed himself "delighted," forthwith canceled other engagements, went to Loyola, spoke. Said he: "It is a happy occasion . . . two great movements come together ... for discussion of common problems . .. everywhere youth is more and more reflecting the influence of Christ...