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...ILLICIT?Valid drama of modern marriage, finely acted by James Rennie and Barbara Stanwyck...
...tall, bespectacled Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts reversed the decision of Judge Clark. The decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the 18th Amendment was unanimous.* It observed that Judge Clark based his conclusions on two articles of the Constitution: 1) Article V, which provides that amendments, to be valid, must be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States or by conventions in three-fourths of the States as proposed by Congress; (2) Article X, which gives the States or the people those powers not definitely delegated to the U. S. by the Constitution nor "prohibited...
Millie (R.K.O.). Donald Henderson Clarke's novel about a woman who is continually disillusioned in her love affairs is valid and believable until the final sequences. Helen Twelvetrees shoots an old sweetheart because he has transferred his affections to her daughter. After that the action settles into routine melodrama. Her career began when she eloped with a member of a wealthy family whose infidelities induce her to plunge recklessly into dissipation. Silliest shot: reporters who remain young after a long interval although the heroine has aged considerably...
...second; and perhaps more valid objection, is the inadvisability of introducing the subject into the secondary school curriculum. Culture, as a vocation, has been greatly, and justly, ridiculed. But it is still a very desirable attribute. It lies entirely within the province of the preparatory school to establish a ground work for culture. If college is to continue as an educational and not a vocational institution, the schools must also, for the college is dependent upon them...
...Power Commission (consisting of three Cabinet members) asked Attorney General Mitchell if it would be legal to issue to Appalachian Power Co. a special, permanent "minor part'' license omitting the Federal audit,* for its plant at New River, Va. The Attorney General forthwith declared the special license valid for plants not on navigable streams. To support his interpretation of the Water Power Act, he declared that if the law were read so as to permit no escape from Federal valuation of hydroelectric property, it would be impossible "to avoid serious questions regarding the constitutionality of this act." Thus...