Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first Federal Court opinion invalidating the 18th Amendment. It raised new or forgotten points of law and constitutional policy. It "amazed" the Drys, "delighted" the Wets. Though its immediate and practical effects on Prohibition were nil, it started a nationwide discussion of fresh judicial phases of the question. Judge Clark did not come to his momentous conclusion unaided. Local attorneys in the Sprague case were joined by able New York lawyers-Selden Bacon, Julius Henry Cohen, Daniel Florence Cohalan-who since 1927 have been attempting to crack the 18th Amendment from a little-discussed angle-namely, that its ratification...
...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 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...
...Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation to the Senate. North Carolina's two Senators and its Senator-elect Josiah W. Bailey went through a characteristic series of molecular reunions and dissolutions on the question. Senator-elect Bailey, a regular Democrat, bitterly opposed the appointment before the Committee: "When the President gives a Democratic appointment to a man who has supported him the conclusion is that the President is using a Democratic appointment to reward a supporter of himself." But Senator Cameron Morrison, likewise...
...interpreter turned to the frail-looking man, repeated the question in German...
Significance. Many a banker argued late and loudly over the question of whether the big organizations ought to have prevented the failure of Bank of United States, cost what it might. One side said it would have been worth $50,000,000 to prevent fear from spreading through the ranks of the financially ignorant. The other side said that in helping the weak the strong impair their own strength, and hence the fundamental strength of the country. Agreed: It depends upon the particular case...