Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a Court functionary, His Majesty ignored everything but the fairy tales, pounced on the big book, retreated to an armchair, buried his nose. Soon, perhaps, Boy-King Mihai was reading the story of Dwarf-King Gleamlet, getting ideas about Kingship from the tale of how Royal Gleamlet dealt with Whisk, the field rat, who had stolen his grain...
Important Folk. Dr. Walther Simons, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court, was introduced as the guest of honor by past-President Silas Hardy Strawn after an organ rendition of "Tannenbaum" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dr. Simons compared the relation of the German and U. S. judiciaries to the executive and legislative branches of their governments. Hoped he: that the German Supreme Court would "reach the place in Germany that the Supreme Court holds in the United States...
...state legislatures, providing for a scientific treatment of criminals. The statute is to grant psychiatric service for all criminals, and before any criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions were passed in favor of a uniform motor vehicles law, a uniform "blue sky" law (controlling sales of securities...
Died. Dr. Edward Seitz Shumaker, 62, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League; at Indianapolis; of a malignant tumor. Since 1907 he had given Indiana Prohibitionists many a signal victory. For disparaging statements made in his annual report to trustees of the Indiana League, concerning the Indiana Supreme Court's attitude in dealing with violators of the 18th Amendment, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, was later pardoned by onetime (1925-28) Governor Ed Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed...
...juxtaposed between alliance with the Central Powers and the Allies. In 1915 when his country declared war on Serbia, he was elated that "Bulgaria was coming in on the winning side." For his part in involving Bulgaria in the War, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court at Sofia. He escaped to Germany and last July, never having returned to serve the sentence, was granted amnesty (TIME, July...