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...October. Balancing the Crawford case and the judicial act will be a mere breather beside the dexterity needed to iron out the NRA and the decision in Hammer vs. Dagenhart, which forbids the use of the interstate commerce power as a penalty on antecedent conditions of manufacturers, admittedly the trump around which the whole act is built...
Without bothering to trump up charges, the royal police pounced on Rev. Anton Koroshetz, Slovene minority leader and on Dr. Vladko Matchek, Croat minority leader who was dragged at night out of a restaurant at Zagreb, hustled off to Belgrade without being permitted to say good-by to his wife & children...
Then the defense played a last high trump, introduced "the best judge" in the case-Grocer Samuel Bernstein, the victim, now living in Far Rockaway...
Carefully concealed for the past few years, the red ace up China's silken sleeve is Bolshevism. Last week China's reaction to the League of Nations' failure so far to help her against Japan was to make a motion toward her trump. Only the merest motion, for the Chinese gentlemen who compose the present government are astuteness itself. They let big, round-face Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov announce with unction at Geneva last week that Russia, the world's largest nation, and China, the world's most populous nation, have resumed the diplomatic relations which China broke...
...premium for making a doubled or redoubled contract is removed. The premium for undoubled over-tricks is reduced from 50 to the equivalent suit or no-trump value...