Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment to be invalid and the motion to quash the [Sprague] indictment is accordingly granted...
...constitutional. People should be able to drink what they want." Farmer Sprague & friends began to celebrate what they imagined was the end of Prohibition with heavy draughts of "cider" (applejack). Judge Clark's ruling, however, produced resounding results far beyond Wantage. His was the first Federal Court opinion invalidating the 18th Amendment. It raised new or forgotten points of law and constitutional policy. It "amazed" the Drys, "delighted" the Wets. Though its immediate and practical effects on Prohibition were nil, it started a nationwide discussion of fresh judicial phases of the question. Judge Clark did not come...
...after a long lapse of years. Pennsylvania's Wet Representative Beck, onetime Solicitor General, recalled, however, that "nearly 25 years after the enactment of the Missouri Compromise, the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case finally concluded it was invalid." Judge Clark anticipated his critics with an analysis of all the other amendments in an effort to prove that the 18th constituted such a large and extraordinary a grant of power as to differentiate it from all others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence...
...last week both Widow Stresemann and Invalid Briand preserved dignified personal silence, while the German Ministry of Justice continued to cogitate...
...Pierce legends in Wall Street. Two samples: Last summer on a very hot day the Pierce men were granted permission to remove their jackets. One unfortunate fellow wore suspenders. A special consultation was held regarding the desirability of his exposing this condition. . . . One employe had to take his invalid wife to the hospital every Tuesday at 2 p.m. He had permission to do this, but was warned to come back always and check out daily with the others "for appearances' sake...