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Another reason why the buyer was not specified in the Volstead Act was Dry fear that such a provision would endanger the bill's passage. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, framer of the 18th Amendment, was among those who reasoned thus. The Supreme Court's decision and a decade of Prohibition have now changed Senator Sheppard's attitude: last week he proposed a bill to make purchases criminal...
...predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the young Cardinal his blessing, then retired to his stately villa (a present from Pope Pius) where he can sit in the sun, busy himself for the rest of his life with canonical law. By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate...
...Chief framer of these pledges was Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, ever a militant Dry, who became the association's president two years ago following the death of its leader and founder, Dr. Francis E. Clark. Last week, as everyone expected, President Poling was reelected...
...Legislature, where he and the Nominee worked together as young men. Big-framed, self-confident, breezy, generous. 50 years old but much younger in looks, he reflects his Western upbringing more clearly than his New York nativity. His Tammany connection has not overshadowed his reputation as a humanitarian, a framer of public school legislation, a philanthropist whose chief work is the Boys Club Federation, of which he is the national president. He educated himself at night school, after he was 20. His insurance agency is said to be the largest in the U. S. "I'm in politics just...
Alderman Robert R. Jackson, framer of the ordinance, said: "The dairy farmers say they will lose money if their cows suffering from tuberculosis are killed. What about the loss of the health of Chicago's 3,000,000 people ? If we must choose between human lives and money, then this committee should fight for lives, and for the protection of our milk supply...