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...sure that the college boys of today are not what they used to be. They no longer have the courage to hang outside the stage door. I blame this--well, we might as well blame it on football. I guess that royal sport can stand one more knock. It's-well, that's my oue, Au revoir...
...seems to have been a fairly able jury unanimously acquitted them of charges of conspiracy. Mr. Doheny, leaving the court, delivered to reporters an heroic on the unbesmirched patronym he now passes on to his grand-children. True, Senator Heflin of Alabama shouted, "All law-ab ding citizens will hang their heads in shame at the verdict", but that was party politics, says the New York Tribune...
When the Supreme Court hands down a decision by a five-to-four majority the scales of justice may well be said to hang by a hair. Such was the situation last week when the court of last resort upheld the provision of the Volstead Act which limits the amount of whiskey that physicians may prescribe to one pint every ten days. Paradoxically enough, this decision was written by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who often dissents from decisions restricting individual "liberty...
Early in October, their trial began. It took five weeks to choose a jury who would agree either to hang all six men for one murder, or declare all of them "not guilty." The high light of the trial was the appearance of young Leopold, who said: "I am afraid I shall have to be excused from answering since I am an inmate and have a very long term [life and 99 years] to serve, and it would be contrary to the ethics of the institution for me to testify...
...when I soon hang up, dear...