Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against the Court is that he is believed to have drafted the reservations which the U. S. Senate has made indispensable to U. S. adherence to the World Court (TIME, Feb. 8, 1926). Those reservations have proved unacceptable to the World Court Powers. The U. S. remains non-adherent; and Judge Moore is widely believed to be well pleased...
...potent were his talents that at 31 he was called to the Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University. Since then he has been recalled to Washington several times to serve as Assistant Secretary of State. In 1913 he was chosen a member of the old Hague Court (The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague) ; and in 1921 he became a judge of the World Court (The Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague...
Explaining further, the Chief Justice declared that if the Act had specified merely "persons" instead of "fit and qualified persons" the Supreme Court would have been obliged to rule that all human beings, including women, criminals and the insane, should be eligible for Canadian Senatorship...
Women are not "fit and qualified persons." So ruled the Supreme Court of Canada, last week, interpreting the British North America Act, which specifies that none but "fit and qualified persons" shall be eligible to become Canadian Senators...
...considering this question," said Chief Justice Rt. Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin, urbanely, "the Court was, of course, in no way concerned with the desirability or undesirability of the presence of women in the Senate. . . . Should Parliament eventually determine to make provision for women Senators, it will be done by the use of language very different from that to be found in the present...