Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bootleggers aren't au fait perse--? Such a pleasant vagary as this just goes to prove that even the Supreme Court, like the sorrowful heroes of Aeschylus, may have a slight dent in its armour...
...calls for indictments and jury trials for "infamous crimes." The Supreme Court has held that offenses punishable by less than a year in jail are not "infamous crimes," require no indictment or jury trial. The Jones Law making all liquor violations felonies ("infamous crimes") though explicitly recognizing "casual or slight violations...
Ingeniously the Commission proposed (that Congress amend the Jones Law to define "casual or slight violations," removing them from the category of "infamous crimes." Petty violators would then not be indicted, tried by jury, but would be brought before U. S. Commissioners for a judicial hearing. The commissioner in turn would report the details of each case, with recommendations, to the U. S. District Judge who, probably never seeing the offender, would render a decision, pass sentence. If found guilty by this speedy process, the petty defendant would still have the right to appeal for a jury trial...
...voluntarily went to court, where they convinced the magistrate: that the car's exhaust pipe was clogged with water, that the gas had escaped into the closed car through a pipe leak, that the men had died within the short period of 15 minutes because even a slight amount of imbibed alcohol increases a person's susceptibility to carbon monoxide intoxication, that the driver was drunk from gas rather than from beer...
...Dawes Plan proved a great blessing to all concerned as compared with the economic chaos of 1924, Professor Fay predicted in 1924 that within five years it would have to be revised. His prediction was verified by the proposal of the Young Plan in the spring of 1929. With slight modifications made at the Hague last August and now being made at the same place, the Young Plan marks a great improvement over the Dawes Plan in many respects, he said. But it also, in Professor Fay's opinion will have to be revised certainly within twenty and probably within...