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...Long's primary election law. As attorney for John W. Ward, candidate for mayor of Alexandria in primaries to be held next week, Mr. Stanley got his case against Long's primary law up to the State supreme court. For the State Constitution says: "the Legislature shall enact laws to secure fairness in party primary elections...
President-emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 joined seven business men in a telegram yesterday to Vice-President John N. Garner urging that sit-down strikes be declared illegal by Congress. He demanded that Congress enact and enforce legislation preventing the new labor weapon...
Future debates will have as subjects the following questions, in all of which the Yardlings will take the affirmative: Congress' power to enact minimum wage and maximum hours legislation for industry, the President's proposed judiciary reform measures, and the sitdown strike as a legal weapon of labor...
Such death would make 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth the Sovereign, and last week her father asked Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth...
...make. Mr. Baldwin went on to tell how these two perfect friends had confided to each other that the one wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson and the other, while not venturing to advise, still less to blame, had expressed the opinion that the Home and Dominion Parliaments would never enact such legislation as would permit Mrs. Simpson to take the status of a morganatic wife, as the King wished. That was about all, according to Mr. Baldwin, except that his royal friend had required a little time to decide to abdicate rather than make Mrs. Simpson his Queen...