Word: court
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decision of the Court of Appeals of New York made in 1886 it is beyond the power of the legislature to protect the home of the poor, by being unable to prevent the introduction of the sweat-shop' into their homes. Whenever it is possible the employer gets his work done in the houses of the poor, because in this way he has not the expense of lighting, heating, and cleaning of a factory to meet...
...years ago, we were all talking about municipal reform. We thought the state governments and the national governments were all right. I dropped the cities and took up the state. I went back to St. Louis because Folk could not get his reforms through. I found that the supreme court of Missouri was as corrupt as the board of aldermen in St. Louis. If the city is corrupt the states are corrupt. Bribery soon ceases on the scale up. Bribery is only the first rough means by which a government, that is supposed to represent the whole people, is made...
Among the other lecturers will be Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsay, the originator of the Juvenile court system, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot '89, counsellor of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, Louis Brandeis L.'77, counsel in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, John Graham Brooks t.'75, lecturer on Economics, and President of the American Social Science Association, James MacKaye s.'95, chemist and author, James J. Hill, capitalist, and former president of the Great Northern Railroad system, Senator R. M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, prominent in encouraging the election of United States senators...
...socialists, and the church will be explained in separate lectures. Among the lecturers will be Lincoln Steffens, managing editor of McClure's Magazine, and associate editor of the American Magazine, Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsay, the originator of the juvenile court system, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot '89, counsellor of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, Louis Brandeis L.'77, counsel in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, John Graham Brooks t.'75, lecturer on Economics, and President of the American Social Science Association, James MacKaye s.'95, chemist and author, James J. Hill, capitalist...
Heublein's, corner of Church and Court streets...