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...some one corporation." Friends of Nominee Hughes were of a different opinion; they predicted that he would have a liberal cast of mind on the bench, might often join the dissenters. Soon after the confirmation of Chief Justice Hughes, the Supreme Court was filled by the appointment of Owen Josephus Roberts as Associate Justice. For months nothing spectacular happened because the trends of the Supreme Court are almost as slow and imperceptible as geological formations...
...EDITOR) JOSEPHUS DANIELS...
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ?Owen Josephus Roberts...
...18th Amendment should have been ratified by State conventions (representing the People) rather than by State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts reversed the decision of Judge Clark. The decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the 18th Amendment was unanimous.* It observed that Judge Clark based his conclusions on two articles of the Constitution: 1) Article V, which provides that amendments, to be valid, must be ratified by the legislatures...
...Government, back to taxpayers in Arizona, Louisiana, Texas and Washington, go some $100,000,000 in tax payments. Taxpayers in Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico, which have similar community-property laws, may also be affected. This decision was the first to be handed down by Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts (TIME...