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Expanding, he started an art class for the unemployed, blacks and whites, in St. Louis' Old Courthouse where the Dred Scott decision started in 1848. The bewhiskered secretary of the orthodox Art League which runs its classes in the same building blew up. Joe Jones sneered: ''The Art League classes . . . attend for a pleasant evening, to look at the nudes and to have tea and cookies which are usually served...
...parting shot, Most-Successful-Cookery-Instructor Kriens gloomed, "English household cooking was better a hun-dred or even 25 years ago than it is today, and it is getting worse...
Sooner or later President Roosevelt's recovery program will have to have its Dred Scott case. For months & months a gigantic tortoise race of litigations has crept up through the nation's lower courts, slugged its way toward the inevitable goal of the U. S. Supreme Court, where three test cases are already on the docket. Last week four late entries appeared. Three were negligible, one looked like a champion. And the recovery program lost three out of four of the first sprints...
...judicial woods. When that time comes the U.S. may have left the depression far behind and the points at issue may be as dead, for all practical purposes, as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was in 1857 when the Supreme Court reviewed it in the Dred Scott case...
...Dred Scott, Missouri slave, sued for freedom on the ground that two years' residence with his master on free soil had made him a citizen. In 1857 the Supreme Court denied his plea, held the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. That decision stripped Congress of its power to pass on slavery in the territories, helped bring on the Civil...