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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard the managers of the House of Representatives formally prefer impeachment charges against Federal Judge George W. English of the Eastern District of Illinois, and summoned the Judge to appear before the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Thereupon the Court ordered Judge English to appear before it on May 3. After that the defendant will be allowed time to prepare his answer and the House to make counter answer, and later there will be a trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: High Court | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...another thing, however, to say that democratic government can exist only in countries where literacy is general. The success of the republics of antiquity with their large slave populations obviously precludes such a conclusion. Yet it does definitely appear that literacy must prevail among the franchised if popular government is to remain effective. The giving of political privilege to the educationally and hence politically incompetent has made a farce of Democracy in Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERATE DEMOCRACY | 4/30/1926 | See Source »

...dismissal from school is a reflection on the sense of proportion of the general public. A not unin fluential group has determined that America shall not slip down the lax road to ruin. The methods employed however, fit ill with the announced intention. Morality in the last analysis would appear to rest on the inclinations and customs of the people and not on the pointed paternalisms of authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DOUBLE-EDGED DOUBT | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

...that one is right and the other wrong would be--in the present case--quit silly. After all, charity begins at home. But the truth of the matter might appear to lie in a synthesis of the two views. Prohibition may have helped--but not enough to justify its--function. To this probably neither would agree. The reformation prohibitional like the reformation protestant often befogs eyes otherwise very clear. Yet to add words to such a superfluity of verbiage as has already developed at Washington is certainly futile. Time and the taste of man eventually effect much. Reformers notwithstanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROS AND ANTIS | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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