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...confession was introduced only to be repudiated. Governor Ely signed papers for George Crawford's return to Virginia- when suddenly, last week, in stepped the might and majesty of the Federal Government. Overnight George Crawford became a national headline character potentially as famous as that other obscure Negro, Dred Scott.* Into the Boston court of U. S. District Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's president, had gone N. A. A. C. P. attorneys seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Lowell, an individualist on & off the bench where he has sat for eleven years, granted...
When Farmer Sprague, a free man, got home that night, he read of his victory in big black press headlines while his Wet friends puzzled him with assurances that he was another Dred Scott.* His cocksure comment: "Prohibition's a farce. I always knew the 18th Amendment wasn't constitutional. People should be able to drink what they want." Farmer Sprague & friends began to celebrate what they imagined was the end of Prohibition with heavy draughts of "cider" (applejack). Judge Clark's ruling, however, produced resounding results far beyond Wantage. His was the first Federal Court opinion...
...after a long lapse of years. Pennsylvania's Wet Representative Beck, onetime Solicitor General, recalled, however, that "nearly 25 years after the enactment of the Missouri Compromise, the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case finally concluded it was invalid." Judge Clark anticipated his 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...
...Negro hero of a famed slavery case which helped precipitate the Civil War. Dred Scott lost his case when the Supreme Court ruled he was not a citizen but "property." * Not to be confused (by males) with D M C," manufactured by Dollfus-Mies & Cie. of France...
...leaf among them. Though there may be considerable humor in one livid nude with triangular legs sprawling on a studio chair (the fat ladies who pose for Independent artists seem to have a distinct disinclination to stand up for any length of time), a hun-dred such nudes leave an impression of acute melancholia. Sprightlier are the political pictures: ruined speculators selling their clothes in Wall Street; Uncle Sam pouring poison into a bottle of whiskey; City Hall Riot, painted on two sheets of wall board by the members of the John Reed Club* which shows a prognathous-jawed policeman...