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...Representing the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, Harlan Miller called on the President to enlist his aid in getting out 50 million voters for this year's election (total 1928 vote: 36,879,414). The plan involves a system of State quotas and proclamation by Governors...
...President disregarded party and geographical distinctions. Judge Cardozo is a Democrat, although he has the support of both parties in his State, and will be the third New York member of the nation's highest tribunal. The others are Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.* The fact that the Hoover political family also contains two other New Yorkers, Secretaries Stimson and Mills, added to the apprehension of Judge Cardozo's friends lest he be deprived of the post. He has been mentioned for every vacancy that has occurred in the Supreme Court...
...Frank belongs to a group of zealous metropolitan literati who organized themselves into the National Committee to Aid Striking Miners Fighting Starvation. Last autumn another group, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, made a sortie into bloody Harlan County, adjacent to Bell, to "investigate conditions." Author John Dos Passes, chairman of the N. C. A. S. M. F. S., went along and so did Theodore Dreiser. In Pineville rural constables swore they caught Author Dreiser in some sexual mis- behavior and if he ever revisits the neighborhood it will be at the risk of reopening a statutory...
...Knoxville, Tenn. they bought 1,000 bottles of milk, hundreds of pounds of bacon, flour, beans and loaded it all into three trucks. First objective was Pineville, in Bell County. After that they planned to proceed to bloody Harlan, distributing the food at miners' mass meetings. Before they left Knoxville, Mr. Frank received a telegram from the mayor of Pineville to the effect that there were no mines near his town, that Pineville did not need Mr. Frank's food and that no mass meetings would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through...
These are words of four eminent jurists: Chief Justice of the U. S. Charles Evans Hughes. Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Harlan Fiske Stone and Oliver Wendell Holmes (who resigned from the Supreme Court last week-see p. 12). But it was a dissenting opinion. The three "Liberal" justices and the pious Chief Justice who wrote the opinion, were a minority in what has since become a cause celebre. The Supreme Court, by 5-4 decision, denied U. S. citizenship to two Canadians, Rev. Douglas Clyde Macintosh, professor of theology in Yale Divinity School, Wartime chaplain, and Marie Averill Bland...