Wow, what a set of headlines.
The station disaster was indeed bad:
The link to that photo, which is directly linked in, notes in the caption that:
More on that event; here.
The United States Supreme Court, which traditionally issues a set of opinions in June, issued one in Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles, holding that a local government could use its power of eminent domain to take land from a private landowner for the specific purpose of building a scenic highway.
Good for them.
This established a precedent still in effect today.
In his opinion, Justice Edward T. Sanford, writing for the whole court (8, one abstaining), stated:
Public uses are not limited, in the modern view, to matters of mere business necessity and ordinary convenience, but may extend to matters of public health, recreation and enjoyment. Thus, the condemnation of lands for public parks is now universally recognized as a taking for public use. A road need not be for a purpose of business to create a public exigency; air, exercise and recreation are important to the general health and welfare; pleasure travel may be accommodated as well as business travel; and highways may be condemned to places of pleasing natural scenery.
I'm sure that in today's Wyoming, this would be regarded in some quarters as an outrage.
Lou Gehrig was introduced as a player for the Yankees.
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