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...ratification had been thoroughly proper and legal. Lay speculation thereafter ran riot in an effort to unearth Supreme Court decisions which would bear directly on the issue. Precedent. In 1920 Elihu Root argued the brewers' case before the Supreme Court. According to Judge Clark, Mr. Root invoked the loth Amendment against the 18th only to show that Prohibition was a "reserved" or forbidden power for the Federal Government, but not to question the validity of its ratification. Mr. Root, said Judge Clark, "proceeded on assumptions entirely foreign to the present controversy." The Anti-Saloon League, on the other hand...
Your reply would help settle one of those irksome controversies that for principle's sake men are loth to leave unsettled...
Lack of a quorum was advanced as the only reason why the Stanford trustees had not already approved Dr. Wilbur's application for another year's leave of absence. The Secretary was described as "particularly loth" to resign from the Cabinet until the disposition of charges against him and his department's administration of Colorado shale oil lands by Field Chief Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct.13...
...telephonic maneuvres has been Hunter Larrabee Gary. When the new company was formed last week it was announced that he will be its chairman. Other of his activities include a directorship on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, vice-chairmanship of Commerce Trust Co. of Kansas City (largest bank in loth Federal Reserve District). Deprived of eyesight for several years by an accident, he went to no college, but was tutored in the science of telephony, accounting, commercial law. Now he golfs, motors, fishes, hunts. His summers are usually spent in a palatial home at Madeline Island, Lake Superior, where plies...
...Grafpen" replies to "Fedorov" (not "Feodor" as above) from Manhattan on the letterhead of Amtorg dated "loth March 1930," naming over a list of "Comrades" whom he asks shall not be recalled to Moscow, as this "might result in a very serious handicap in our work...