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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the words of a revolutionary statesman rose out of century-old oblivion, cheered Wet leaders. For in the pages of a letter, grown yellow and faded, Gouverneur Morris penned vigorous words 123 years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Famed Fingers | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

To the State Legislature of New York, last week, onetime Assemblyman Eliot Tuckerman presented Morris's letter, and a petition.* The whole question of the constitutionality of the 18th Amendment and the Prohibition law, hinges, he pointed out, on the interpretation of one phrase in the Fifth Article of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Famed Fingers | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

The Supreme Court of the U. S. in its first Prohibition decision ruled that the phrase "two-thirds of both Houses" meant two-thirds of a regular quorum in each House;† the Prohibition Amendment was legally passed under this ruling. But to Senator Uriah Tracy, Gouverneur Morris wrote in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Famed Fingers | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

The following men will participate in tonight's tournament: In the 115 pound class: N. M. Field 1L, H. E. Henchel '30, Milton Krook 3L, and B. F. Masseli '27: in the 125 pound class: J. R. Burns '29, G. H. Prosser 1L. G. W. Provost '30, M. F. Subiloff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING TOURNEY TO OPEN WITH 35 ENTRIES | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

At 12 o'clock in the Glee Club room at Paine Hall. Mr. Morris Zam will play compositions by Chopin for the delectation of any member of the University, who cares to hear renderings of the works of the great master of pianoforte music.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

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