Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, the senatorial sire of the Five & Ten Act, doubtless never gave a thought to the publicity he would come in for. But last week he made it clear he resented joining Mr. Volstead's category. Emphatically he protested: "There is no Jones law!" By this he meant, hairsplitting, that his measure, increasing prohibition penalties to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine, was merely an amendment to the Volstead Act and should therefore be anonymous...
...distinction was too fine. An "Act to amend" is still an "Act," a law. And so, although "Five & Ten" was rapidly replacing "Jones Law" as the measure's name, Senator Jones tried to escape his misery by calling in company. He pointed out that the measure had had a co-author in the House of Representatives, Congressman Gale H. Stalker of New York, who was being deprived of his share of the credit. In fact the Stalker Bill, he said, had been introduced nine days before the Jones Bill. Insisted Mr. Jones: "I hope the proper term will...
Senator Jones's unhappiness over the Five & Ten Act was increased last week when New York's volunteer committee of lawyers to defend Five & Ten victims unearthed and republished a statement made by Senator Jones in 1921 on the Senate floor. He had said...
...Washington, as a moral offset to the anti-Five & Ten legal committees, steps were taken to organize a "Bar of the United States," composed of lawyers in Federal practice pledged to all law enforcement including Prohibition. Charles William Freeman headed the organizing committee, with William R. Vallance, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State and president of the Federal Bar Association, as chief assistant. Only "earnest advocates" of law enforcement are eligible, though on Prohibition, "personal beliefs" would not be considered...
...York Evening Post surveyed the U.S. on the Five & Ten last week. Its sub-headlines told the story: "Plenty in Chicago"; "High Frisco Prices"; "Detroit Trusts Grow"; "New Orleans Still Wet"; "Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...