Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Senate fights over the naval bill and the peace treaty; Boston fights over Sunday baseball; everybody fights over prohibition; but Michigan is confronted by a problem vastly more penetrating, and even more odorous than these. Michigan fights over skunks. Recently biologists and furriers convinced the state legislature that skunks are valuable integral parts of a community, and as such should expect the protection due to any and all of the state citizens. As a result, it is now against the law in Michigan to molest skunks, even in the way of self protection, during the months from February...
...carefully separated trilogy of American government, built in three concentric spheres, there has generally been little friction between the two inner bodies, local and state control, while the latter and the federal administration have rubbed each other the wrong way violently enough to form a strong issue in campaigns a century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously...
This is the usual unpleasant spectacle of the persecuted Freshman hazing the next class as soon as he is a Sophomore. For fourteen decades the quarrel of state and national governments has dragged through courts and congresses and war. Recent years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this...
...state in your issue of Oct. 22, page 14: "Actually the Greek ship had struck and foundered the newest and best French submarine, the Ondine...
Your quotation from a pastoral letter of Cardinal Hayes, relative to birth control, in your issue of Dec. 17 is all right in its way but does not state the Catholic view point on the subject. May I direct your attention to the November issue of the Catholic World of New York. In this issue there is an article entitled "The Church and Eugenics," by Rev. Bertrand L. Conway of the Paulist Fathers. In part it says...