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...enforced by the courts without a tremendous stretch, made under strong administrative pressure, and the strength of administrative pressure is a fact that can only be politically determined. If it can really be enforced at all, it can be enforced by an executive power under a blanket mandate of the people; and the attempt to enforce it must be made under the supposition that it will court industrial defiance, not only of particular provisions, but of the government itself...
...Delimitation of the Commission's powers instead of the blanket power now provided. But its authority to regulate over-the-counter markets will be widened...
...smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...
Coach Farrell is entering a Crimson squad that, if nothing else, has been primed for this contest which climaxes the winter track season, and though pre-meet predictions point to a blanket finish for the teams, with victory probably hinging on the mile relay, the Crimson will need every break to top either the Red or the Green. So evenly matched are the three teams that the closest team contest in the fifteen years of the games is predicted. The program is a first-rate one and promises many smashing races. In the 45-yard high hurdles alone there...
...March 12, 1888 the heavens reached down and smothered the North Atlantic coast under a blanket of snow from 21 in. to 50 in. deep. For a full week the normal activities of civilized life all but ceased. Since that time, all winter cataclysms in the east have been compared to the historic Blizzard of '88. There were memorable storms in 1893, 1910 and 1920. But last week brought two storms which lashed New England to its knees, knotted its icy grip on New York and New Jersey and jolted the entire Southeast. One swept up from Cape Hatteras...