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Nations flayed by prominent Congress speakers were: the U. S., for failing to grant Bolsheviks a whopping loan; Japan, for invading Inner Mongolia and clashing even with Red Outer Mongolia (see p. 22); Germany, for continuing to balk France and Russia in their efforts to get that power to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July...
...quite possible that a liberal justice would vote to give California Convict Tom Mooney a hearing (as the Supreme Court did last fortnight) or to uphold a state mortgage moratorium law and then balk at the idea of pensioning all aged railroad employes, fixing the price of ice in San Antonio or the price of a hair cut in Jersey City or enforcing collective bargaining in a steel plant-all on the legal theory that these things help to regulate and maintain the free flow of interstate commerce...
...Devanter. But thoughtful conservatives point out that those cases did not involve Federal legislation and that since the laws in question were passed by Legislatures, the additionally ticklish question of State rights was to be considered. Furthermore, the legislation under scrutiny was of an emergency nature. The court may balk when the time comes to pass on the more permanent legislation New Dealers want graven in the statute books...
Score--Harvard 3, Yale 2. Two base hit--Ware. Three base hit--Armstrong. Struck out--by Parker 4, by Loughlin 3. Base on balls--off Parker 7, off Loughlin 4. Wild pitch--Parker. Stolen bases--Nevin, Dugan, Gibbs. Double play--Prouty to Adzigian to Nevin. Sacrifice hits--Parker, Maguire. Balk--by Loughlin. Time--2 hrs., 5 min. Umpires--Keady and Skelly...
...Sallow, pug-nosed, swaggering Welker Cochran, San Francisco billiardist: 400-to-139, with a high run of 217, his play-off match in the international 18.2 balk line billiards tournament, against skinny Erich Hagenlacher of Germany; in Chicago...