Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanent Treasurer of the Class of 1929, Alan Richardson Sweezy of Englewood, New Jersey, prepared at Exeter. He is at present president of the Harvard CRIMSON, secretary of the Student Council, and has been chairman of the Student Advisory Committee. Robeson Bailey of Philadelphia, who is the newly elected Poet, prepared at Hill and is president of the Advocate. He played on his Freshman basketball and tennis teams...
...TREASURER Alan Richardson Sweezy 255 Hulburd Johnston 164 Ballots thrown out 3 -- Total 422 CHORISTER Richard Stedman Holden 165 James Richard Carter 134 Philip Hamilton Rhinelander II 118 Ballots thrown out 5 Total 422 POET Robeson Bailey 211 Philip Ives Dunne 203 Ballots thrown out 8 Total 422 ORATOR Lawrence Trevor Grimm 201 John King Fairbank 143 Norman Winer 73 Ballots thrown out 5 Total 422 IVY ORATOR Alan Russell Blackburn Jr. 180 James Henry Sachs 145 Peter John White Bove 92 Ballots thrown out 5 Total 422 ODIST Chauncey Devereux Stillman 212 Philip Hichborn 204 Ballots thrown...
Justice Jennings Bailey (District of Columbia Supreme Court) instructed the jury that unless it decided there were eight Senators physically present, the verdict must be not guilty. Thus, the ingenuousness of Col. Stewart was never passed upon. The jurors (three of them women) came in after 55 minutes, congratulated Col. Stewart, patted his broad back...
Chairman George W. Norris of the Senate Judiciary Committee was thoroughly disgusted with Justice Jennings Bailey. If the Bailey theory of quorums is right, "95 per cent of all State and national legislation would be nullified," said Senator Norris. "All the legislatures in the civilized world operate without physical quorums. Unless there was a fight on the Judge [Bailey] himself, he probably was not confirmed by a quorum and therefore, under his interpretation, he is not a judge...
While citizens wondered whether Justice Bailey was a discriminating jurist or a quibbling dolt, and whether U. S. Senators are efficient investigators or clumsy persecutors, Col. Stewart packed out homewards to Chicago, scot-free at last of the Oil Scandals unless the Senate gets the Bailey theory of quorums overridden in the U. S. Supreme Court...