Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monetary damages were denied Mr. Warren, but the University had to pay all court costs...
...Library of Louvain, built with U. S. cash (TIME, Oct. 17, 1927, et seq.). Even amid the excitement of campaigning to become President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover found time to air his strong view about the inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant was the triumph of the new library's U. S. architect, potent and temperamental Whitney Warren, famed in Manhatten alike for his ability and for appearances at socialite functions in a blue silk shirt and bulging white scarf...
...Monsignor Ladeuze caused to be clandestinely prepared a second set of balustrade stones spelling: In Bella Reducta; In Pace Resti-tuta ("Destroyed In War; Restored In Peace"). The secret leaked out. Mr. Warren hired roustabouts and huskies to rush his stones into place. Rector Ladeuze stopped them with a court injunction and the entire police force of Louvain, then hired other huskies to put up his stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof of the library, hurled down and shattered most...
Asked what he would do if the University of Louvain appealed, Architect Warren drew down his beetling brows and roared: "Carry the suit to the highest court! Fight to a finish...
...suspension of the session which the Speaker granted. In the interval the Cabinet retired into a second huddle and henchmen of the Prime Minister busily circulated among the rustic members of the Peasant Party, to explain that Constantin Saratzeanu was an honorable though inconspicuous rooster on the Rumanian Supreme Court bench...