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...grant of power as to differentiate it from all others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence in repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League said he was "threshing old straw." Dry Congressmen declared that he was trying to curry political favor-a declaration followed immediately by reports that New Jersey Republicans...
...flood of anti-Prohibition propaganda which has, during recent months, almost engulfed every channel of publicity in America, without adequate challenge on the part of those who supported the 18th Amendment," Prohibitionist Charles Reading Jones of Chicago, chairman of the American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, announced that within a year he & associates would spend $3,000,000 to insert Dry advertising in 2,668 daily newspapers, 8,000 weekly and semiweekly publications, 20 or more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started to raise...
...York last week sent 150 bu. of salt and $700 in cash. No gift was this, but the annual payment in cash & kind stipulated by ancestors of the present Onondagas when the State purchased from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench...
...described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found highly acceptable to the Guatemalan Congress. Apparently he was highly acceptable to the U. S. State Department as well. Within three days President Hoover sent a telegram to Senor Palma "wishing the Acting President success in his office," thus giving him diplomatic recognition. The only trouble was that Acting President Palma was not at all acceptable to the Guatemalan Army and a considerable section of the populace. Day after...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 4?nd St., New York City...