Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...According to Judge Clark, Mr. Root invoked the loth Amendment against the 18th only to show that Prohibition was a "reserved" or forbidden power for the Federal Government, but not to question the validity of its ratification. Mr. Root, said Judge Clark, "proceeded on assumptions entirely foreign to the present controversy." The Anti-Saloon League, on the other hand, insisted that Mr. Root had used the loth Amendment just as it was used by the Sprague defense, and that the Supreme Court, upholding the 18th Amendment against Mr. Root's attack, had quashed this line of argument. The case...
...Onondaga Indians at a reservation 3½ mi. south of Syracuse, the State of New York last week sent 150 bu. of salt and $700 in cash. No gift was this, but the annual payment in cash & kind stipulated by ancestors of the present Onondagas when the State purchased from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from...
...representation of Hindu and Moslem minorities in Indian Provincial legislatures, a question which Britons demand be settled before any definite promise of Dominion status is given. Far more important was the appointment of a new Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (TIME, Dec. 15). This appointment so roiled George V that...
Wets in the Finnish Diet, parliament of the world's No. 2 Prohibition country, did their best to give a handsome Christmas present to thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present...
...played, afraid that lies will be told about someone they know. Yet no lies are told in this picture. You can accept Jackie Coogan, you can accept the treatment which does all for the story that any cinema could do in the limits of program time-present its surface, the long lazy days and river night-falls of Hannibal, Mo. in 1870, and the adventures of some children there. Naturally, the adventures have been telescoped, but most of the best ones are left -Tom showing off for Becky Thatcher, being tortured by his conscience because he and Huck Finn...