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...Literally, the Court of King's Conscience dating from the early eighteenth century. Chancery had jurisdiction when there were no forms of action by which relief could be obtained at law, in respect of rights which ought to be enforced. Said King James, speaking in the Star Chamber: "Where the rigour of the law in many cases will undo a subject, then the chancery tempers the law with equity, and so mixes mercy with justice, as it preserves a man from destruction...
Because the renowned Pilsner beer industry of Czechoslovakia would profit hugely by a repeal of the U. S. Eighteenth Amendment, Zealot Maresch has long enjoyed complete toleration and some quiet encouragement by the shrewd burghers of Prague. Last week however public sentiment turned bitterly against him overnight, when he printed what was construed as an affront to the political idol of Czechoslovaks, famed Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. As everyone knows, Dr. Benes was the chief lieutenant of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in their heroic and successful struggle to create the Czechoslovak State during the World...
...Liberty went a letter (published last week) from Senator Carter Glass, 70, of Virginia. It read: "There has been left on my desk a copy of Liberty, dated April 28, containing what purports to be an interview with me by Sidney Sutherland on the subject of the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. I desire to warn you that the purported interview, almost from the beginning to the end of it, is inaccurate and largely fictitious. ... I have usually managed to think and talk as a gentleman should and to use the English language...
...carefully prepared articles by me which completely reflected my views. Upon his insistence and purely for his own information, I consented to explain exactly why, in my opinion, there was no analogy between alleged violations of the suffrage amendments in the South and the actual violation of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Prohibition Act in all parts of the country. That was all; and nothing that I either thought or said could afford justification for the article which Mr. Sutherland wrote and which you published depicting me as a sectional ruffian, speaking harshly and intemperately of those whose views...
...midst of this apathy Mr. Laski sounds a note of warning which unquestionably merits of moment's pause. "America, in fact, is applying eighteenth century ideas and institutions to the problems of a twentieth century civilization. Prosperity may postpone the gathering of the harvest: but one day, assuredly, a new generation will rean us fruit...