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...that case held that, in an emergency, a state had the power to set aside contracts. Again New York passed a law providing for minimum milk prices. Twice the Supreme Court has upheld the State's power. Apparently the majority of the Court is disinclined to let a strict interpretation of the 14th ("Due process of law") Amendment stand in the way of economic experimentation by states in times of emergency...
Perhaps it was the influence of a pretty woman in the days when women were few in the Bay Colony, possibly it was Anne Hutchinson's reputation as the best mid-wife in New England, or it may have been a natural revolt from the overly-strict Calvinist doctrines of the Puritans that was responsible for the growth of a sect which was nearly successful in gaining control of the legislature. On that control rested the fate of Harvard, for learning was a thing to be abhorred as from the Devil. It could only lead to confusion, and, never having...
While Roosevelt pleads for world peace and urges the nations to accept his plan for strict government licensing of arms manufacturing, the State Department announces to the parley at London its intention to build up the fleet to full treaty limits. This sudden pronouncement of policy calls attention to the uncritical attitude which the American people has adopted towards its naval building program...
...President Roosevelt wrote a letter to Housing Administrator Moffett with strict injunctions that the rate of interest on mortgages issued under the Housing Act was to be 5% flat plus ½% or 1% for insurance, plus, in some cases, ½% for service charges. Basic rate for refinancing cases is to be 5½%. He declared that rates of 8% to 12% demanded on mortgages in the past were "exorbitant." ¶ Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, dropped in at the White House. As he emerged he intimated that the American Legion, which fortnight ago demanded immediate cash prepayment...
Since Lady Helen is not of royal blood Prince Juan, under the strict Bourbon rules of the Spanish Royal House, could not marry her without first putting aside his rights to the Throne. In Mayfair the Londonderrys have long been supposed to be the most potent partisans in Britain of a Spanish restoration. Would they let their daughter make a marriage which would wipe out the last real pretender to Spain's Throne...