Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice with interest the statement in TIME, that the author of the "Jones Law," or the ''Five & Ten," "had seen only one drunken man in his life" (TIME, April 1). If the Senator made such statement, I would like to recall to his mind, when he must have seen them as many as three at a time, unless he was "seeing without eyes." This particular instance was about the time, in 1889, or the early '90s, when he was employed as a stenographer by Spike & Arnold, in Yakima, Wash., and one of his former employers, Sidney...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week asked President Hoover to name a Negro to his forthcoming law enforcement commission. Suggested names: Boston's William H. Lewis, Cleveland's Perry E. Davis, Washington's Municipal Judge James A. Cobb. The President was told that Negroes want an opportunity to disprove the charge that blackamoor drinking habits make it necessary for the South to uphold prohibition...
Other Legislation. Being new, the 71st Congress sought to undertake many another task than those for which it was called. Plans were laid for legislation to repeal the national origins provision of the immigration law, effective July 1, to reapportion the House of Representatives, to provide for the 1930 census. Demand was also heard for measures on flood control, prohibition, conservation, Wall Street speculation. Ambitious House members had hopefully prepared more than 300 bills for introduction...
Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer is a short full-paunched man from Missouri, red of face, generous of nose and nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law. A 3% beer man, he voted against the Five & Ten Act. He likes to play the stock market...
...this re-attainment of perspective, a movement looking toward the sane use of a good thing, the faculty of the Harvard Law School should take the lead. The students should not be left to cut through the fog alone. To ignore or belittle the problem or discourage its discussion cannot in any event suppress its open agitation much longer. The experience of the men who have to use the casebooks demands a fair and candid re-examination of the rational basis of the case system and its re-evaluation with reference to the separate subjects to which it is applied...