Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Majority Opinion. Associate Justice 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...
...caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) were still the U. S. rule for trading in wheat, corn, rye, barley oats and like grains, then Armour Grain Co., or anyone, might play David Harum* to the detriment of farmers, millers or brokers. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture has long sought to keep grain transactions honest; and so Secretary William M. Jardine was "tremendously interested" last week to learn that Banker Edward Eagle Brown of Chicago, as arbitrator, had ordered the Armour Grain Co. to pay $3,000,000 to creditors of the now dissolved Farmers' Cooperative Grain Marketing...
...money was a penalty for dishonesty and cheating by Armour Grain Co. employes. When their stores of grain were being sampled and priced for sale to the Farmers' company, they sneaked into their warehouses, in dead night, and altered samples of poor, bin-burnt grain to make it seem like good grain. And they falsified their books to claim more grain sold than actually existed. This was reprehensible, decided Arbitrator Brown. The buyers had no warning to beware; should not have needed such warning. J. Ogden Armour and his nephews Philip D. Armour and Lester Armour will have...
...became acquainted with an Englishman and a Scotchman, and started with them on a rice-selling expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...
...country swallowed the story, with a prodigious grain of salt. People