Word: gateway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sutherland handed down the majority opinion, assented to by Chief Justice Taft and Associate Justices Butler, McReynolds, Van Devanter. He wrote: "A theatre is a private enterprise which, in its relation to the public, differs, obviously, widely, both in character and degree, from a grain elevator standing at the gateway of commerce and exacting toll. . . . Sales of theatre tickets bear no relation to the commerce of the country. . . . And, certainly, a place of entertainment is in no legal sense a public utility; and, quite as certainly, its activities are not such that their enjoyment can be regarded under any conditions...
...would be the wiser if he had his subjects wash his feet, rub his brow, lull him to sleep. "King" Waldo I will soon gaze upon his domain-the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and some 50 adjacent islets controlling the Virgin Passage at the gateway to the Caribbean Sea, 60 miles east of Porto Rico, 1,400 miles from Manhattan. The Virgin Islands were, as every schoolboy knows, discovered by Columbus in 1494 on his second voyage to the Americas. They were purchased by the U. S. in 1917 from Denmark...
...TIME. Dec. 13, you refer to Atlanta as "The Gateway to the South." Caps quoted and everything...
Might as well say Hell Gate is entrance to your famed Manhattan as to say Atlanta was a southern gateway...
Atlanta. For ten months newspapers and magazines have carried advertisements stating the advantages of Atlanta, Ga., as a trade centre, "Gateway to the South." The campaign cost $250,000, and it has succeeded. In ten months, 136 new concerns went to Atlanta, and 4,630 persons. The communal payroll increased by $7,000,000 yearly. Pleased, Atlanta businessmen began last week to collect $1,000,000 to continue this national advertising of their city for another three years...