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...California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...
...specifically repudiate all enforcement policies that do not regard and safeguard every personal right. . . . Personal habits and the conduct of the home are in the field of private morals. These should not be touched by the hand of the law unless they cross their boundaries and then only by due process of law. . . . The primary attack is on the traffic of intoxicating liquors...
...Decision. Chief Justice Hughes, upholding the constitutionality of the Railway Labor Act, found Labor's injunction a proper means of keeping the railroad from violating the law. Said he: "The legality of collective action on the part of employes in order to safeguard their proper interests is not to be disputed. . . . Such collective action would be a mockery if representation were made futile by interferences with freedom of choice...
This is permitted under the "Escape Clause," "Safeguard Clause," "Contingent Clause" or "Escalator Clause" (as it is variously called) of the Treaty. It renders the reduction (or limitation') clauses of the Treaty non-binding and purely voluntary. It does not affect the clauses fixing the ratios to be maintained among the U. S., Britain and Japan, for if one of these takes the "escalator" up the others are allowed to follow proportionally...
...effect of this safeguard, Mr. Alexander said, would be that notwithstanding the U. S. and Britain had agreed to parity and a suitable ratio had been allotted Japan, each of these nations?he had in mind Great Britain?would be allowed to increase its agreed tonnage, upon notifying the others that such increase had become necessary because some power extraneous to the agreement (France, Italy, or Russia, for example) had begun "competitive naval building...