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...first got into trouble with prohibitors when, junketing through France with other U. S. mayors last spring, he publicly opined that Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure." The Greater Atlanta Prohibition & Law Enforcement League began to circulate a petition for a special election to oust him. Though the League could not get one-third of the signatures required for a recall vote, Mayor Key had to withdraw from his men's Bible class at Grace Methodist Church. Thereupon he began a non-denominatiorial Bible class in a theatre where he was free to excoriate...
...Dublin events quick-stepped both day and night. To become President, Mr. de Valera had had to oust President Cosgrave (TIME, Feb. 29). But Enemies de Valera and Cosgrave are both devout Catholics. United by Rome, they knelt together at a solemn votive mass in St. Mary's, Dublin's procathedral, before starting their battle in Dublin's parliament. Sarcastically Battler Cosgrave said, "We will give President de Valera every opportunity to develop his policies. We don't want to hear his explanations of policy?we want to see what he is going...
Have school boards the right to oust lazy or stupid students? Many a tax-paying parent might feel that, having paid his money, he has his rights. Last May this question interested one Jean West, 19, freshman at the Teachers' College of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) which is State-supported. Suspended for failure to maintain a required standing, Miss West sought to restrain Miami University from expelling her. Her counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed...
...days after Sheriff Farley's removal the man who unearthed the evidence against him, Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislative investigation, went to Cincinnati. Addressing the City Charter (Reform) Committee, he took a thrust at Governor Roosevelt for failing to oust Farley sooner, flayed Tammany corruption, sounded a national note which some observers interpreted as a non-partisan bid by Inquisitor Seabury for the Presidency. "[Tammany] now reaches out," said he, "to use its influence in support of some candidate who will be friendly to it, if indeed, he does not openly wear the stripes of the Tammany Tiger...
Lawyers, it is true, have proved extremely chary of disbarring their fellows and it is probable that they have failed to oust from the profession many men whose practices have been far from impeccable. The prospect of quelling the shyster lawyer is attractive. That possibility, however, cannot balance the danger of giving individual judges, inevitably fallible, unchecked control over the liberty of all members of the bar in their district...