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...tambourine he resolved to win was high place in the medical profession. As a freshman at Stanford, he watched Curtis Dwight begin a law career in Los Angeles ? a career that was to take him to the Superior Court bench. Ray Lyman kept his head down, studied in Germany and England, returned, taught physiology at Stanford ? and became Stanford's presi dent...
...Supreme Bench. In 1922 he became Chief Justice. Then, after the Denby trouble, when President Coolidge was at a loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur?"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things and people look...
...Passed a bill authorizing $25,000 to be spent policing the Hoover inauguration. ¶Passed a bill authorizing additional appropriations for vocational education. ¶Passed a bill transferring certain Indian claims in Idaho, Kansas and Oregon to the U. S. Court of Claims for settlement. ¶Passed a bill covering settlement by Interior Department of damage claims from Federal irrigation works on Indian-owned land...
When Austria threatened Serbia (now part of Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria...
Jeremiah Smith (1837-1921) was one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire from 1867 to 1874. In 1890 he became Story Professor, retiring in 1910. Through his teaching, and the teaching of his pupils, he exercised a distinct influence upon the development of the law of torts...