Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Sprague case appealed directly to the U. S. Supreme Court for a full test of the points raised against the 18th Amendment. Sweeping aside all the judge's erudite views, the Government flatly contended that he had erred, that the Amendment's ratification had been thoroughly proper and legal. Lay speculation thereafter ran riot in an effort to unearth Supreme Court decisions which would bear directly on the issue. Precedent. In 1920 Elihu Root argued the brewers' case before the Supreme Court. According to Judge Clark, Mr. Root invoked the loth Amendment against the 18th only...
...Wesley, but for a long time he thought celibacy the only state, finally marrying a widowed shrew who brought him four ready-made children and continuous quarrels. Wesley was a missionary to the marrow, but his single attempt on the U. S. (in Georgia) was unsuccessful; England was his proper field. There he traveled 200,000 miles, preached 40,000 sermons, gathered 120,000 followers. "By 1770 whatever else people thought of Wesley, they were bound to think that he was among the most important forces of his time...
...loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March 31). The U. S. Consul General was besieged with outraged demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away with her husband, at the same time...
Most newsworthy exhibit was a huge canvas that never got into the exhibition proper at all, was hung apologetically in the lobby. It was a picture of four bleary-eyed topers in a club smoking room, entitled "Speaking of Prohibition." It was painted by that famed oldtimer, Charles Dana Gibson...
...paralysis. Heretofore the best treatment for the disease has been "convalescent serum" taken from a person who has recently recovered from infantile paralysis. Convalescent serum has been scarce and difficult to get. Drs. Marcus Neustaedter, neurologist, and E. J. Banzhaff, serologist, have hit upon a procedure of producing the proper serum in a horse, the handy and prolific source of diphtheria antitoxin. This serum immunizes monkeys against the disease. It has even cured them when given quickly after they were infected. In the U. S. and Europe some five dozen children, some of them in the early paralytic stages, have...