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...National Law Enforcement Commission, after a four-month holiday, went to grips again with Prohibition last week. As its eleven members gathered in Washington, Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, all a-twinkle with good humor, remarked to curious newsmen: "You never can tell what kind of blossom will bloom until the plant develops...
During its four-month summer holiday the Court's docket had received 324 new cases, making a total of 514 to be heard. Of these only 18 were original actions commenced by states in the highest court. During the more than five years that John Jay was first Chief Justice of the U. S., the Court heard only a score of cases. Now it considers an average of 1,000 cases per year...
...four-month battle for control of Fox Film and Fox Theatres companies (together the largest cinema enterprise in the world) last week ended with the decisive defeat of William Fox, who saw the direction of his companies pass into strange and hostile hands. To General Theatres Equipment. Inc., Mr. Fox sold 150,101 shares of Class B stock in his two companies-this block representing his personal holdings and including all the voting Theatres and a majority of the voting Film stock. As the major issue in the entire Fox litigation had been the possession of these 150,101 shares...
England imposes a six-month quarantine on all dogs entering the country. In view of the absence of rabies, the Canine Defense League called this quarantine cruel, unnecessary, suggested a four-month quarantine. The Ministry of Agriculture answered with a bulletin to show that the absence of rabies in Great Britain was due almost entirely to the quarantine, that it may take rabies six months to develop...
Last week Mircea Damian, author, began serving his four-month sentence...