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...tool of Hooverian power." Progressives charged Mr. Hughes with favoring monopoly; Whigs excoriated Taney for opposing it. Both were conceded to be excellent lawyers. The Senate confirmed Taney as Chief Justice March 15, 1836, by a vote of 29 to 15. He lived to write the famed Dred Scott decision (1857) which voided the Missouri Compromise, denied Congress the right to abolish slavery in the territories and thus helped to advance the Civil War. Senators warned that Chief Justice Hughes might someday write a decision on an economic question as pregnant with awful consequences as was the Dred Scott decision...
...control from inflicting upon themselves and others the consequences of self indulgence and vice, your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning the destruction of the Maine...
...Zeiss firm of Jena will sell these instruments only to cities, universities, museums, after guarantee that they will not be used for profit. Each a universe and a lecture room combined, these hun dred-foot domes reproduce the movements of all heavenly bodies, but are. available for ordinary class purposes when not wanted for astronomical demonstration...
...Dred Scott...
...Will the Supreme Court's decision on medicinal alcohol prove to be the Dred Scott case of prohibition...