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...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...
...sweep circus rings between acts, the Oakmont gangsters watched early arrivals take trial gouges here and there in the 6,860-yard course. An early comer was George Von Elm of Los Angeles, runner-up last year at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia) to Champion Bobby Jones. Deliberation writ upon his countenance and grim revenge, Von Elm played four rounds, including a 72 with a 7 in it, then took Mrs. Von Elm over to Manhattan where he bided his hour...