Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discriminating jurist or a quibbling dolt, and whether U. S. Senators are efficient investigators or clumsy persecutors, Col. Stewart packed out homewards to Chicago, scot-free at last of the Oil Scandals unless the Senate gets the Bailey theory of quorums overridden in the U. S. Supreme Court...
Minnesota's Christianson arose to complain about the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling that national banks are federal agencies and therefore exempt from cer tain state taxes. His point was that na tional banks are operated for the benefit of stockholders and should therefore be taxed the same as state banks...
...another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never did Fate mock at a more distinguished company in their impotency to stay with sympathy the progress of disease...
Three judges of the Mexican Supreme Court went to jail last week. In the jail, at Mexico City, they crowded into a large cell with Assassin José de Leon Toral, self-confessed slayer of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...hours Assassin Toral and his lawyers explained to the Supreme Court Judges why they should set aside the verdict of Death pronounced upon Toral by a lower court (TIME...