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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
Harry Canter lived in East Boston. He was a Radical. He was the Communist candidate for Secretary of State. When the Radicals held a political demonstration last November in front of the State House, within which was Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Harry Canter participated by marching around carrying a placard which said: "FULLER-MURDERER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI." Harry Canter was arrested. To the policemen he said: "Law isn't made for the workingman...
Last week the Commission called by President Hoover to study "all law" held three meetings in Washington. These things happened...
...April blizzard Wisconsin held a referendum on the question of repealing its State Enforcement Act. The voters called for the repealer by a 142,000 majority. The Drys blamed the blizzard, saying that farmers had been kept from the polls. With its members singing "How Dry I Am!'' and "Sweet Adeline," the State Assembly repealed the enforcement act. The senate followed suit. Last week Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "in fulfillment of the mandate of the people," signed the repealer...
Significance. If such an election were held in the U. S., the results would be obvious: the Laborites would be in power, the Conservatives would be the next most important group, the Liberals could be ignored. In England, however, precisely the reverse was the case. The 47 Liberals were most important of all, for in their hands was a balance of power between the Conservatives, who remained second-most important until Prime Minister Baldwin should be actually ousted by a vote in Parliament, and the Laborites, who could not decide what to do about their plurality until the other...