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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was a State prohibition law, desired and admired by the leading citizens...
Willis Chatham Hawley of Salem, Ore., has succeeded Iowa's Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...
...more and more of the U. S. population was brought under State prohibition laws between the years 1870 and 1917, total consumption of alcohol in the U. S. increased almost three times as fast as the population...
Chairman George W. Norris of the Senate Judiciary Committee was thoroughly disgusted with Justice Jennings Bailey. If the Bailey theory of quorums is right, "95 per cent of all State and national legislation would be nullified," said Senator Norris. "All the legislatures in the civilized world operate without physical quorums. Unless there was a fight on the Judge [Bailey] himself, he probably was not confirmed by a quorum and therefore, under his interpretation, he is not a judge...
Still more hopeful, a new State's attorney was getting ready to enter office in Cook County, Judge John A. Swanson. Robert E. Crowe, the Republican incumbent beaten by Swanson in the primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special...