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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Walter Hines Page was ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he told President Wilson, in recommending his then secretary for ministerhood: "I depend on him [Laughlin] more than all the rest of my staff together. I can hardly imagine a more careful or conscientious man." While Secretary of Commerce, President Hoover was impressed by Laughlin's ability when, as minister at Athens, he aided U. S. corporations in securing a munificent contract for waterworks construction. A man of affairs with long foreign experience, he precisely fits the Hoover pattern for diplomats...
Growth in favorable sentiment toward Prohibition, said Senator Sheppard, had made possible this extension of the Volstead Act. Furthermore, the Senator was annoyed by last fortnight's decision in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, clearly exculpating a purchaser of liquor from any guilt in the transportation of what he had bought (TIME, Oct. 14). Senator Sheppard therefore offered to the Senate an amendment adding purchase to manufacture, transportation, possession, sale and other activities forbidden under the Volstead...
...Abraham Pepper. Prisoner No. 73 was Goodman Levy. Prisoner No. 86 was Hyman Matofsky. There were, in all, 81 prisoners (five of the 86 being absent, nolle prossed or admittedly guilty). New York poultry men all, indicted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, all being tried simultaneously in the court of Federal Judge John C. Knox, they presented several difficult problems in the administration of justice...
Griswold, who edited the Review two years ago, has written an article on "Reaching the Interest of the Beneficiary of the Spend-thrift Trust" while Professors Frankfurter and Sandis have joined in an essay on "The Business of the Supreme Court in the October term, 1928". These men have written a book called "Business of the Supreme Court", to which the essay adds further information...
...continuation of a series of studies of the annual practical workings of the Supreme Court, the essay analyzes the number of cases which come before the Supreme Court and how they are decided. It is an attempt to provide a regular systematic statistical analysis of the work of the Court, which can be reformed only by such methods as will provide concrete suggestions for this reform...