Word: writ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tennessee of having "taught evolution" out of school books approved by that state's educational authorities. It is six months since lavender-gallused Clarence Darrow hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and tortured the late William Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months since the nation's press bawled daily headlines about a classic struggle between Reason and Religion, Brains and Bigotry, Science and Superstition...
...Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, a petition was filed for a writ of mandamus to compel Secretary of State Kellogg and Donald F. Bigelow, American Consul at Paris, to issue to Countess Karolyi, wife of the onetime President of Hungary and alleged Red, a visa to her passport in order to visit the U. S. Thus did the Countess through her attorneys set out to gain by force of law what Secretary Kellogg denied her in the name of the law (TIME, Nov. 2, CABINET...
...committed to a definite Briand-Doumer Finance Program. Optimistic observers inclined to the opinion that he can weld and strengthen these commitments into a majority which can resist the Cartel's efforts to dictate Government policy. Political ravens, of course, croaked that the Cabinet's pledge of unanimity was writ in water...
Other Cases Decided. Terence Druggan, convicted beer-legger of Chicago, appealed for a writ of habeas corpus to escape jail on the grounds that the Volstead Act was illegal because it had passed before the 18th Amendment was ratified. Justice Holmes read the Court's opinion sustaining the Act, declaring: "No reason has been suggested why the Constitution may not have given Congress a present power to enact laws intended to carry out constitutional provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take effect...
...well be that men today are wise enough. Reverence for antiquity has its limits. But there is consummate shrewdness in some of the things Vishnu-sharman related, putting his epigrams now into tales within tales, now into rimed quotations from religious writ. The translator suggests: "It is as if the animals in some English beast-fable were to justify their actions by quotations from Shakespeare or the Bible...