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During its term the court denied modification of the packers' anti-trust Consent Decree; sustained Oklahoma's oil proration law; voided a Texas law designed to bar Negroes from Democratic primaries; upset reapportionment legislation in Missouri, Minnesota and New York; approved the jailing of Alphonse Capone and the fining of Harry M. Blackmer, oil runaway, for contempt of court (see p. 12); invalidated Oklahoma's law to limit ice dealers by "convenience & necessity" license; denied the Senate's right to oust George Otis Smith from the Federal Power Commission after sending his confirmed nomination back to the President...
...announce her betrothal to a rich and eminently eligible young man, Don Slocum appeared at her fancy dress ball clad as Mickey Mouse. After threatening to shoot her he lost his nerve, shot himself. His dark and fantastic disguise made a derisive pall. Miss Schaeffer was not particularly upset...
...good show of its talent on the Soldiers Field diamond at 3 o'clock today. The visitors have piled up ten consecutive victories this season and are facing a Harvard team which has plenty of worries already. The Crimson has lost games at unexpected moments, such as the upset at Brown on Monday, and the Holy Cross and Georgetown defeats some time ago, and has a stiff return match with the Crusaders scheduled for Saturday...
...Harvard team handed the Bears a 5 to 2 defeat, and that without much effort. Saturday saw Charles Devens, as one-man ball team, aided by other members of the squad, notably Wood and his long distance home run clout, administer Columbia a fitting revenge for an early season upset, 8 to 3. But yesterday the genius of Devens was absent from the pitchers box, and the infield which usually supports him so well collapsed behind the adequate pitching of Taylor. Devens played in centre field and hit the only double of the contest...
...England last week when six U. S. lady golfers upset six English ladies in three two-ball foursomes, the English game. Then in the middle of the singles a rain came driving down, it was just England in May, and the English ladies were at home. Observers predicted an English victory in the rain. On the drenched hills and dales of the Wentworth course in Surrey the three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty...