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...Congress unconstitutional by a 5-4 majority? Even the most conservative papers declare that a 6-3 or a 7-2 majority should be necessary to overrule Congress. "The country will cheerfully take law from six or seven Justices that it will not take from five Justices without protest. This may not be altogether consistent, but it squares with human nature." Opponents of the 5-4 decision point out that "Mr. Taft has yet to show cause why a 6-3 decision is not better than...
...bumper is a spiked belt de-signed to keep the amorous at a respectable distance. The deterrent is three projecting steel bars about three inches in length. French maidens have entered no public protest at this attempt to rail them...
...Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution of the United States. He was promptly arrested and released on $500 bond. Mayor George E. Cryer had refused permission for the meeting, and denied Sinclair's " constitutional rights," charging that the novelist had forgotten his " constitutional duties." The Chief of Police...
...emphasizing the purposes in founding the University paper, Mr. Henry C. Merwin '74 said that the CRIMSON was founded to protest against the prevailing reactionary sentiment created by the Civil War. In closing the spoke to the effect that there is little question that the League of Nations would be entered by this country if only the young men of the country voted...
...English Government, with its usual deliberation, has done nothing, and probably will do nothing until its legal experts have examined the Supreme Court ruling. The French Government, more impetuous, had Ambassador Jusserand visit the State Department and talk with Secretary Hughes. It, too, will probably make no formal protest until it is evident what the United States actually purposes doing. French, Italian and Spanish law requires that seamen on ships of those nationalities have a daily liquor ration. So there will be a direct clash between the laws of at least three countries and that of the United States. Ambassador...