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...their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant, but Amherst alumni thronged to join the celebration. President George Daniel Olds of Amherst made a speech. President Harry A. Garfield had come over from Williams College and he made another speech. Mr. George A. Plimpton, senior trustee of Amherst, exhibited his remarkable collection of Amherst memorabilia-portraits, autographs, prints, cartoons, maps and even original broadsides of the declarations of war between George II and Louis...
...test the legality of the Riot Act? Mr. Thomas knew that the U.S. Government has on file other documents besides those that provide for the suppression of disorder. There is for instance the Constitution, which guarantees to freemen the right to meet and voice their opinions. Next day, in Garfield, N. J., Mr. Thomas climbed into the crotch of an appletree stump and put the Riot Act to the test...
Albert Weisbord, jailed on four counts, three of them headed "Hostility to Government" and the fourth "Inciting to Riot," was released on $25,000 bail by the Paterson police, rearrested on the same charges by the Garfield deputies. He could not get another $25,000; so he was taken to a cell? a thin, frail young man but recently graduated from the Harvard Law School. Bainbridge Colby, onetime Secretary of State, spoke vainly on behalf of him and U.S. justice. Later Prosecutor A.C. Hart was persuaded to reduce his bail to $5,000, which was found for him. As Weisbord...
...Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote asking Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to intervene, appended a catalogue of acts committed by the police which he declared to be "mockeries of justice...
...peddler's license. He was offered his choice of two licenses. The first permitted him to sell bones, grease and refuse matter. The second gave him leave to hawk anything he chose except fish, fruit or vegetables. Mr. Mencken promised not to violate these provisions, received his license. Arthur Garfield Hays telephoned Dr. Chase and asked him if he would buy an American Mercury if Mr. Mencken offered one for sale. It was Dr. Chase's silver coin that Editor Mencken popped into his mouth...