Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Religion: "As death and age thin their ranks [the fundamentalist ministers] and the effect of their efforts now beginning towards greater liberalism becomes evident, then and only then will Protestantism in the South turn from its advocacy of mob-law, its crippling of universities [exception: University of North Carolina], its opposition to knowledge, and its handicapping of Southern mentality...
...Law: The anti-lynching bill proposed by Socialist Victor Berger never became U. S. law. As for the Southern States, their laws are mainly equivocal on the subject. Lynchers do not feel they are breaking the law...
...week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently libellous per se, and obviously refer to the plaintiff, despite the adroit generalizations used, and because a publication is made at the publisher's peril and risk, the motion is denied...
...Norris, niece of the late Mr. Gates, who received most of the Gates estate and controls some $80,000,000 (Texas Oil Co.) wants it built on the East bank of the Fox River, where she owns a community house, a cinema theatre. But E. J. Baker, brother-in-law of the late Mr. Gates, who inherited several other millions of the Gates estate, owns another community house, another theatre and a skyscraper hotel on the West bank. Last week the East-West controversy was intense, had split the entire town. Wash ington had to be consulted...
Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who breaks into a New York society composed of retired truck-drivers. A truck-driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand...