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...Appellate courts, we hope it will at least have the effect of focussing the country's thought upon the neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions. We have often wished for some statute akin to mortmain to remove the dead hand of tradition from the domain of ideas. . . ." Putting aside "the stereotyped method of constitutional interpretation and construction" and the judicial principle of citing superior decisions (stare decisis] Judge Clark declared: "We are quite willing to stand flatfootedly on our thesis that the scientific approach
...Einstein said that he believed that every man of fighting age should refuse to fight and the dangerous and destructive heresy of such a remark has lead the Los Angeles Legionaires to rise in defense of the peace of their Californian domain by keeping the father of such ideas beyond their borders. An attitude of militant protection would seem to be the only way these professedly peace loving people can protect the sanctity of their homes from pacificism. It is unfortunate that instead of advocating pacificism Professor Einstein did not make a plea to keep the world safe for democracy...
Concerning oil & gas, he said that the 17,500 prospecting permits outstanding in March 1929 had been reduced to 5,094. "The conservation policy has resulted in blowing a great deal of speculative paper off the public domain...
Question of Value. The substance of the Kelley charges in the World was that Secretary Wilbur and his predecessor, Dr. Hubert Work, had, by a series of rulings made under political pressure, allowed shale oil lands in Colorado to be transferred from the public domain to private oil companies (TIME, Oct. 6 et seq.). Mr. Kelley, longtime Denver field chief of the General Land Office, argued that these lands contained oil worth 40 billion dollars. The Attorney General and the President retorted that "these oil shale lands have little present value" because no commercial method has yet been developed...
Idaho. The election of a Democratic Governor in the domain of Senator William Edgar Borah, independent Republican, was in the nature of a reaction under laboratory conditions ? unadorned evidence of the country's trend. The reagent's name: Ben Ross...