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...Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...
...Governor Murphy's request, 250-lb. Sheriff Wolcott had made no move to enforce Judge Gadola's injunction. After three days a G. M. superintendent went to the judge, got a writ ordering arrest of the sit-downers and of 15 union officials, including Homer Martin, for contempt of court. To Detroit went word that Sheriff Wolcott was preparing to lead an army of Flint policemen, deputies, American Legionaries, sheriffs and General Motors police to serve the writ. Few hours after President Roosevelt sent to Congress his message on judicial reorganization (see p. 16), the supremacy of Executive...
Motoring through Long Beach, Calif, to address a mass meeting of striking Pacific seamen, Strikeleader Harry Bridges ran down and killed 8-year-old Joe Miranda, was released on a writ of habeas corpus in time for another speaking engagement in Los Angeles...
After 20 minutes, when most preachers would have ceased, Preacher Whitelock was merely warming up to his subject, "Signs of the Times." When an hour had passed, Mr. Whitelock had no more than established his thesis: that Holy Writ contains prophecies of modern social, moral, financial, political, ethical and economic conditions. When two hours had passed, his patient congregation was still listening to quotations dealing with such subjects as heavy motor traffic (They shall justle one against another in the broad ways...
...locality the Gideons never penetrated is the citadel of the U. S. Bible trade: Manhattan. There the New York Bible Society supplies free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From...