Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smothering mesh of legal machinery in the United States, the workmen's voice is stifled?as Labor sees it. Hence the rejoicing of Labor, when a decision is handed down like the one that came last week from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Some 40,000 firemen and "engine hostlers" (men who wash and oil locomotives) employed by 55 class one railroads of the west, were awarded a pay-raise, aggregating $3,600,000 per annum...
...discuss disputes between operators and workmen, but its findings were not made mandatory. The Watson-Parker Bill of 1926 amended the Labor board's functions to include arbitration. The Board's name became "Mediation Board"; its findings were made "final and conclusive" if upheld by a United States District Court. Federal District Judge George A. Carpenter of Chicago dismissed an operators' petition against a finding of the Mediation Board last December. Last week's Circuit Court decision upheld Judge Carpenter and notified the workmen not only that they would get 30 to 50 cents per day more pay on basic...
...trail of thought to the conclusion that the task of judgement "is not to fit the penal treatment to an abstract crime but to a concrete criminal." In his newly published "The Delinquent Boy: A Socio-Psychological Study" Doctor John Slawson says that the first necessity of the juvenile court is "to treat the offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved such procedure practicable. And there is in the adult criminal enough mutability to make...
...outstanding player from the beginning of the matches on Wednesday morning, and his defeat by Noble was a decided upset. The Lawrenceville racquetman got a good pace on his drives during his matches, his service was severe, and his change of pace effective. He recently won the Princeton interscholastic court tournament...
...spring of 1778, after George Washington had moved his troops out of Valley Forge, that noble eccentrician, Governor John Hancock, put his bold signature on the last bill passed by the Provincial Court of Massachusetts. The bill gave young Samuel Phillips Jr. the right to open a school for boys at Andover, Mass. Horseman Paul Revere designed a silver seal (finis origine pendet) for the school; and 13 boys began to study under Eliphat Pearson, whom they dubbed "Elephant." In 1789, President George Washington came to Andover to make a speech; later eight of his nephews and grandnephews went...