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...which Will Rogers is perfectly correct) consists of a segregation of males on one side and of females on the other side of a substantial chinkless, eight-foot board fence. This stops at the water's edge (similar French barricades do not). Such is the force of custom (not costume), however, that there is no commingling even in the water...
...critics with an analysis of all the other amendments in an effort to prove that the 18th constituted such a large and extraordinary a grant of power as to differentiate it from all others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence in repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League said...
...coffin in which lay the body of North Carolina's Senator Lee Slater Overman who had died that morning. The Overman desk (on the aisle, second row) was draped in black. The funeral service, conducted by Spnate Chaplain Phillips, was brief, simple (see p. 8).∙ ¶ As custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel...
...Lucia Brides." In the dawn after the Lewis speech Mr. & Mrs. Lewis woke up in their hotel, blinked at two Swedish maidens wearing crowns of lighted candles. Known as "Lucia Brides," they served coffee, an old Swedish custom observed in the dawn each Dec. 13. Sensing that a photographer had sneaked into the room to flashlight the prizeman & wife in bed, pajama-clad Mr. Lewis tusseled with the fellow, threw...
...began a thoroughgoing medical examination of hundreds of applicants which will continue for at least a month. Conscientious internes cranked and cranked at whirring centrifugal milk-testing machines. Zealous investigators checked the social status of each applicant lest some highborn peeress or ambitious bourgeoise sneak in. For by immemorial custom the two wet nurses assigned to each newborn child of the Son of Heaven, the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, must be of peasant status. At these two symbolic points in Japanese life the lowest and the most exalted meet...