Word: joneses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into President Hoover's office at the White House last week marched two Senators-Jones of Washington, Walsh of Montana; and two Representatives-Til-son of Connecticut, Garner of Texas. They came to perform a traditional ceremony- notification of the President that Congress was about to adjourn. Congressman Tilson...
Secretary of the Navy Adams cancelled the Lexington's sailing orders, reconsidered Tacoma's request. Naval officers admitted that the Lexington's 190,000 h. p. plant could generate nearly three times (140,000 kilowatts) the amount of electricity required by Tacoma (50,000 kilo-watts), that transfusion of this...
On Christmas Eve, 1927, Marshall Ratliff disguised himself as Santa Claus and, with three companions, robbed a bank at Cisco, Tex., killed two policemen. Captured and condemned to death, Robber Ratliff was returned to the county jail at Eastland, Tex., to undergo a sanity test. Eastlanders grumbled at the law...
What the Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court...
The Fitzhenry judicial reasoning: The Jones Law raised liquor violations from misdemeanors to felonies. The half-for-gotten misprision of felonies law (1790) makes any person who fails to report a felony within his personal knowledge himself guilty of a felony. Therefore, ruled Judge Fitzhenry: