Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since April, the Pilgrims have given banquets for Retiring-Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, World Court Judge Charles Evans Hughes. Only the decision of venerable Klihu Root not to go to England after all on his return from Geneva (TIME, April 1) prevented their dining...
Last week Prime Minister Ramsay Mac-Donald announced that he would submit to the League of Nations Assembly in September Great Britain's acceptance of Article 36, the famed optional clause of statutes of the World Court...
Article 36 provides that all member nations of the World Court subscribing to this clause must recognize its jurisdiction in any legal dispute concerning...
...whom Author Lewisohn has been separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals...
Oliver Morosco, Manhattan theatre man, found himself last week on the unpleasant end of a court judgment for $173,529. In 1911 he produced The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully of Sierra Madre, Cal. In 1912 one Grace A. Fendler sued Producer Morosco and Playwright Tully, charged that the play had been plagiarized from her In Hawaii. Last week she won her case in the New York State Supreme Court. Heavy as was Producer Morosco's lot, Playwright Tully's was worse. The damages awarded against him totaled...