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...protestants. Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho has announced his intention of making a fight on the 5-4 rule in favor of a 7-2. In association with him will be Representative Roy Orchard Woodruff, Republican, one time dentist of Bay City, Mich., later its Mayor, now its Congressman. They have prepared a plan and a program...
Their program. When this bill is introduced it will " have hard sled- fling " in committee, as Messrs. Borah and Woodruff admit. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, especially, there will be difficulty, for the Committee includes Brandegee of Connecticut (Chairman), Cummins of Iowa, Colt of Rhode Island, Sterling of South Dakota, Shortridge of California, Walsh of Montana. Almost its only supporters will be Mr. Borah himself and Senator Norris of Nebraska. But the proponents of the bill hope to get it out on the floor of Congress and fight for it there...
...will be noted that the proposal is in the form of a bill, not an amendment to the Constitution. Senator Borah and Representative Woodruff hope that a bill will be sufficient to secure their end. They claim the bill would affect the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, not alter its power. But since it is a bill, it could, if passed, be nullified by decision of the Supreme Court itself. Then it would have to be repassed in the form of an Amendment. The advocates of the bill feel sure that an Amendment would be unnecessary, because Daniel Webster once...
Such was J. D. Woodruff's opening remark in the Harvard-Oxford debate last night thereby giving his audience food for considerable thought, G. H. O. Scaife, the visitors' closing speaker, got off to an almost equally good start...
...question: "Resolved: that this assemblage deems the French occupation of the Ruhr as greatly prejudicial to the welfare of the world." The three Oxford debaters who will speak in favor of this question are C. H. Scaife, who was vice-president of the Oxford Union last term; J. D. Woodruff, for a time a member of the British Diplomatic service; and G. A. Gardner, a student of Magdalen College, who in addition has had both dramatic and military experience. Although the Harvard team, which consists of Philip Walker 25, Charlton MacVeagh '24, and P. W. Williams...