Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Kansas decision was appealed. Last week it turned up before the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of which is, of course, the same William Howard Taft whose 1909 action constituted the point at issue. Dignified, fairminded, Chief Justice Taft took no part in the court's deliberations. But the Court upheld him, reversed the Kansas decision. It held that the pardoning power was part of the machinery of the law, that this machinery operates without regard to the consent of those affected. It held also that changing a death sentence to a life sentence was a legitimate part...
...have been based on the argument that Governor Small took oath as Governor while in possession of funds illegally secured during his term as treasurer, that, under such circumstances, he had no right to hold the office of Governor and should therefore be removed from it. If quo warranto action was instituted in an unfriendly court, the Governor might well find himself judicially barred from concluding his term...
After a three-day session, the Conference disbanded, after the adoption of resolutions calling on the Federal Government to supply immediate flood relief and requesting congressional and presidential action on the prevention of further floods. It was expected that the resolutions would offer some suggestions as to flood prevention, but the committee on resolutions was apparently so divided between adherents of levees, reservoirs, reforesting, spillways and various combinations of these methods that no specific resolutions were adopted...
...Arbitration Crusade embodies a group of citizens interested in securing arbitration as a universally established method of international settlement. This summer a delegation of students from six American universities, including Harvard, will go to France to visit French universities and present Professor Sayre's treaty, with an appeal for action. This move follows on the recommendation of Foreign Minister Briand of France that such a treaty be drawn up between the United States and France...
...booksellers. To buy a new set, to reprint the missing pages, or even to mend the old pages if they should be returned and to rebind the volume, will be a serious expense, yet the Library must in some way repair the loss. Any course of action or any expression of opinion that will prevent such destruction in the future, we should be prompt to adopt...