Word: barring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bitter Feeling. But elimination of the liquor question did not entirely preclude bad feeling. Educational requirements for admission to the Bar received major consideration and brought in conflict two belligerent factions, one headed by Dean Lewis of Pennsylvania, the other by Dean Gleason Leonard Archer of the Suffolk Law School (Boston night school). Dean Lewis advocated reaffirming the Association's previous recommendation of a two-year college education prior to law study. Dean Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that...
...reform the law, to have an outing, to see the great, some 4,000 lawyers last week congregated in October-cool Memphis for the 52nd annual meeting of the American Bar Association...
...Future. Promising full expenses to about 200 delegates, the A.B.A. has invited the Bar Associations of Great Britain and France to attend its next meeting, which will be held at a city to be selected later by the executive committee...
...Langley will have an unobstructed airplane runway 1,200 ft. long by 200 ft. wide. At the mid-sides the platform will project to give room for a hotel (with restaurant and bar), hangars, storage sheds, weather bureau, offices, hospital wards, lighthouse. Platform and buildings will be 80 ft. above calm water level. Because no Atlantic waves have ever been seen more than 45 ft. high, it is improbable that the runway ever will be awash. The buoyancy columns with their stabilizing disks will reach 160 ft. below water level. That is considerably deeper than any wave action has ever...
...dawn. In Britain sportsmen remembered John Peel and his song more than on other Octobers, for last week marked the looth anniversary of the day when one John Woodcock Graves, poet-fox hunter, first bawled "D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray"* in the cosy bar parlor of the Rising Sun Inn at Caldbeck, in the rough Cumberland hills. From the "Big Grass" county of Leicestershire, enthusiasts traveled north to Caldbeck, where Peel lies buried, to sing his song, to ride once more over the country that...