Word: barred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Logan's act, introduced by Pennsylvania's Walter in the House, embodied a protest which he and other eminent legalists, in & out of the American Bar Association, have been making since long before the New Deal: that the administrative departments and independent agencies of the Government (notoriously the Federal Trade Commission in Republican days, the NLRB and SEC more lately) have compiled vast tomes of offhand, capricious rulings which have the force of law and from which there is no clear recourse...
...after the revolts against the tottering Metternich absolutism in 1848. When Wendell was born in 1892 his father, Herman Willkie, was a lawyer and a wealthy landowner in the town of Elwood, Ind. (pop. 10,685). His mother was also a lawyer, the first woman member of the Indiana bar, and besides tending her family (six children, of whom Wendell was the third) helped her husband in his law practice. Elwood was then riding high. Natural gas had been discovered and the supply was so plentiful that no one took the trouble to turn out the street lights...
Three years of teaching school netted him $90, with which he started a weekly newspaper. When it folded, he sold books on the road for three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were drunk and a newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork...
...years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing short stories. Unwilling to capitalize on his father's fame, he used the pseudonym of "John Le Bar." Liberty found out who he was some years ago; since then he has signed his own name to his fiction...
When Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones began the Central City festival (with Lillian Gish in Camille), he frowned on sideshows, drinking shindigs in the Teller House bar. Present producer-director of the festival is Frank St. Leger, Chicago musician. Last week square dances, tintype studios, night-club entertainers flourished once more in Central City. With The Yeomen running up the best box office in recent years, likelihood was that the festival would henceforth stick to plushy musical shows...