Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with horror stories on boondoggle items such as "the $300,000 that the Army spends to finance Sunday morning recreation for civilian members of private rifle clubs," the Knight papers have run two-column pep talks urging readers to protest to their Congressmen, helped them out with maps of congressional districts and names of Representatives...
This edict may seem unfair--particularly since it applies even if the seaweed threatens to float away before Monday--but it is not a demonstration of the irrational malice of the local judiciary. The ruling merely upholds the state's Sunday Blue Laws...
Clamdiggers and bootblacks set up a clamor at this, and eventually, through effective lobbying, were exempted under the law; so were policemen and firemen seeking in order that they could hold Sunday parades. The law has suffered many similar modifications and encroachments in the last 260 years, some of which are not easily explained. The distinction between clamdigging and seaweed gathering is a fine one, and it is difficult to see why it is illegal to play golf but not miniature golf...
Dancing on Sunday is more difficult than drinking. In 1935, the legislature amended the law to permit dancing at Sunday weddings, "unless admission is charged," but any other sort of public dancing is illegeal; Saturday night dances end promptly at twelve. This is particularly burdensome when New Year's Eve falls on a Saturday, since all good citizens must greet the New Year by going quietly home...
...state's Blue Laws have been called anachronistic and confining, but they have been upheld as recently as 1947. And, after all, even though you may not spend your Sunday hunting or collecting bills, the courts have specifically held that it is permissable to accept a dog as a gift...