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...association, as I understand it, gathered together for the better enforcement of the law. Now just what is it we mean by the law? . . . It is very easy to enact legislation. We have State Legislatures and the National Congress, that each year put upon the statute books of our country thousands upon thousands of different enactments undertaking to regulate and control our conduct. . . . I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. It is a maxim of our institutions that the Government does not make...
John J. Pershing: "Many months ago Secretary of War Weeks asked Congress to enact a law to retain me on the active service list after I reach the retirement age next September. No action has been taken. F. W. Wile, Washington correspondent, called this another example of Congressional inefficiency...
...that, in the even of a declaration of war, the property, as well as the persons, lives, and liberties of all citizens, shall be subject to conscription for the defense of the nation. The plan proposes that it shall be duty of the President to propose and Congress to enact the legislation necessary to carry such conscription through. If this is made a constitutional requirement, the whole nation could be set to work to attain national victory at one stroke...
...play will carry the fated pair through their early days in Manhattan slums. After a short time spent happily in Europe where "soul is soul regardless of skin," the pair will return to enact the second and final act in an apartment owned by the Negro's wealthy parents. Ella, the white wife, will love her husband but hate his race. Her nerves will run out to insanity as he struggles in vain to pass his examinations at the Law School. She will prowl about with a carving knife and interfere with his study. She will go quite...
...anybody whether they like it or not. A committee of influential Negroes and others in Boston say that the local censor has agreed to suppress it. The Legislative League of New York has protested. The New York World raised the question as to whether it is legal to enact upon the stage something which is "illegal and punishable as a crime ... in all Southern and border States...