Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Labor unions had agitated the question. In the Federal Court at Buffalo, Mary Cook and Antonio Danelon lost their cases. In the Circuit Court of Appeals they won, with many a fine reference to the Jay Treaty of 1794 and the historic freedom of U. S.-Canadian comings & goings. The Supreme Court nodded its approval...
...commute is not to migrate. So decided the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week in refusing to review the cases of one Mary Cook and one Antonio Danelon, two inhabitants of Niagara Falls, Ont., who, like many other Canadians cross the U. S. line every day to go to work. They were the laboratory specimens selected from among tens of thousands to test a ruling made last year by the Labor Department (TIME, May 2, 1927), putting foreign-born Canadian commuters under the quota...
...million armed Chinamen. From the short belt, which girdles his slender waist, hang, metaphorically, the scalps of a dozen conquered War Lords, among them that of the once dread Chang Tso-lin, who for a decade held Manchuria, and who dominated all North China from his barbaric Court at Peking. Last week the son of defeated and assassinated Marshal Chang Tso-lin, young Chang Hsuch-liang, was reported to have hoisted the Nationalist flag over Manchuria and to have sworn fealty to Nationalism...
...Corona d'Ttalia, Centauro of the Carrara Fascist Patrol, ex-British citizen) is today's reigning marble tycoon. To his sister is married his first cousin, Carlo Andrea Fabbricotti, ex-officer of the Italian Navy, ex-officer of the Italian Army, ex-Italian Ambassador to the Romanov court of St. Petersburg. These two men, kinsmen and rivals, carry on the 500-year Fabbricotti tradition...
...obtaining desirable legislation in Congress. He has selected judges and other high officers in New York for their ability and experience without regard to any political influences, and his choice has invariably received the approval of the legislature. We should expect his appointments to his Cabinet, the Supreme Court of the United States, and other important federal offices to show the same remarkable ability to pick, the best...