Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...businesses involving public utilities or morals, that theatre ticket scalping* does not come under either of these classifications, that the New York law limiting scalpers' charges to 50c in advance of the rate printed on the face of the ticket is unconstitutional. This decision reversed a lower court opinion and ended the case of Tyson & Brother, United Theatre Ticket Offices, Inc. v. New York State officials...
...Majority Opinion. Associate Justice Sutherland handed down the majority opinion, assented to by Chief Justice Taft and Associate Justices Butler, McReynolds, Van Devanter. He wrote: "A theatre is a private enterprise which, in its relation to the public, differs, obviously, widely, both in character and degree, from a grain elevator standing at the gateway of commerce and exacting toll. . . . Sales of theatre tickets bear no relation to the commerce of the country. . . . And, certainly, a place of entertainment is in no legal sense a public utility; and, quite as certainly, its activities are not such that their enjoyment...
Dissenting Opinion. Associate Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Sanford and Stone dissented. With brief eloquence Mr. Holmes, 86,* wrote: "We fear to grant power and are unwilling to recognize it when it exists. . . . The truth seems to me to be that, subject to compensation when compensation is due, the legislature may forbid or restrict any business when it has a sufficient force of public opinion behind it. Lotteries were thought useful adjuncts of the State a century or so ago; now they are believed to be immoral and they have been stopped. Wine has been thought good for man from the time...
...opinion of Alice Brady, star of "Lady Alone", plays dealing with Lesbianism and Homosexuality or similar distasteful subjects have no place on the American Stage. They treat of matters not only unpleasant in themselves, but made considerably more so by the crude manner in which the playwrights who attempt this type of sensationalism handle them. In addition to which, Miss Brady feels that the topics are in most cases new to the audiences and do anything but stimulate their minds in the proper direction...
Before his talk Captain Bartlett gave his opinion as to the mysterious disappearance of Marvin one of Peary's Polar associates in the Polar regions. Setting out with only Eskimo companions, Marvin had sought to make his way over the arctic floes. For some reason he disappeared. The explanation given by one of the Eskimos that on crossing between the floating masses of ice, Marvin missed his footing and plunged into the water. Last year the Eskimo repudiated this entire explanation and declared that he was the murderer himself. Although great publicity was given to this episode, the latter story...