Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Howell Edmunds Jackson, who is to take the late L. Q. C. Lamar's place as associate justice of the Supreme Court, was graduated from East Tennessee College...
...began by stating that railroads are the strongest corporate powers in the world and have control of many legislatures. There is no denying that they have also brought great evils. The problem of today is how to control them. That legislative control is legal, is acknowledged by the Supreme Court, that it is needed is proved by history, for no individual can cope with these corporations, no single state can control interstate traffic. The most dangerous abuses of the present are unjust discriminations against products, localities, and individuals particularly secret rates. Railroad discriminations nursed into power the Standard Oil Company...
Later came James IV whose handsome person a poetic nature attracted to his court and circle of literary men. William Dunbar, the first of these was little known when he came to court. He had been of the Order of St. Francis, but had never liked his profession. At court he wrote innumerable verses on court incidents-which were full of life and vigor. So good was his work that Scott called in the first poet of Scotland to the time of Burns. He too was a follower of Chaucer...
...class of 1853 at Yale graduated the following distinguished men: Ex. President Andrew F. White of Cornell; Justice Shiras of the United States Supreme Court bench; G. W. Smalley and J. H. Bromely of the Tribune, Edmund Clarence Steadman, Wayne McVeagh, Theodore West, the novelist; Benjamin K. Phelps, ex-district attorney of New York County; Senator Gibson, and the late President G. H. Watson of the New Haven Railroad...
...Prohibition is a legitimate remedy. - (a) It is constitutional: Decisions of the Supreme Court, 101 U. S. 819, Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition, p. 473, (b) No unusual trespass on personal liberty is involved: North Am. Review...