Word: civile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zechariah Chafee, Jr., professor in the Harvard Law School, will be the chief speaker at a public meeting to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in Ford Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee. At that time several prominent men will speak against the censorship of plays and books which is at present creating so much comment...
When domestic quarrels threaten acute physical violence, nervous householders send for a policeman to restore order. So, last week, did the Austrian Republic. Frightened by the imminent threat of civil war between Austria's two snarling private armies (the semi-Fascist Heimwehr, and the Socialist Schutzbund), the entire cabinet of Chancellor Ernst Streeruwitz, an ineffectual businessman, declared itself incapable of dealing with the situation, resigned in a body. Leaders of all political parties rushed to Vienna's police station, begged sleek white-bearded Police Chief Johann Schober to take over the reins of government...
...American Society of Civil Engineers meets at Boston...
...Bishop Francis Asbury whose biography he has written, who founded the Methodist Church in the U. S. Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up from Methodism. His father and five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion, an elegant liquor manual (1928). In aspect he is an extremely...
...that scientific study of the legal materials of the Civil law of Europe and South America which the Institute intends to carry on. The Library of Continental and South-American Law at the School is remarkably complete: these facilities exceed the opportunities offered at any other school...