Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hardy Strawn of Chicago, onetime (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association and a conspicuous member of Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long has the Chief...
Another important effect which results from the Act is that whereas prior to the Jones Law prosecution of violators of the Prohibition Law could be started by an information, now that the selfsame crimes are felonies, there must be a grand jury presentment or indictment as a condition precedent to trial. This will of course increase the burden and cost of Federal Prosecution and will result in additional delays and perhaps in large wet cities in lack of prosecution by Grand Juries. Perhaps the solution will be in a change in the Criminal Code distinction between felonies and misdemeanors...
...from baffling plot down to a presentation of grotesque effects and nothing more, the authors of "The Skull" cannot be too severely taken to task. Most good plots have been exhausted by now, but there is still the possibility of giving the public a good scare about once an act. We don't guarantee the goodness of these scares, but no effort is spared in an endeavor to put great numbers of them across...
Harvard's move is an act of the highest courtesy. It should go a long way in cementing the already friendly relations that exist between the two institutions. We hope it will be appreciated as such by Dartmouth. --The Dartmouth...
...Frankly, I hate golf," declared Gilda Gray, well-known movie star and shimmy artist, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. "I get plenty of exercise doing my little act on the stage...