Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been "kicked upstairs." President Coolidge had appointed him to a vacancy in the U. S. Court of Claims for no better reason, it seemed, than that Mr. Green had chronically disagreed with Secretary Mellon's ideas on taxation, particularly the inheritance tax, which the Administration wants repealed. Mr. Green fought the repeal because he thought it would benefit only a small class of rich people; because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East...
...findings of the Navy's court of inquiry on the S-4 disaster, issued last week, were divided into three parts...
...court of inquiry was composed of two august Rear Admirals (Jackson and Latimer) and a Captain and a Commander. Three distinct controversies-two of them within the Navy itself-raged in Washington so soon as their ponderings were published. So sharp were these controversies that Secretary Wilbur hastily ordered the court to reconsider the whole case and report anew...
...been technically made a defendant in the trial and that the equivocal findings did not justify censuring him. While the subject of this discussion steamed out of Balboa, Panama, on his flagship, the cruiser Camden, to oversee Control Force maneuvers at the Perlas Islands last week, observers studied the court of inquiry's alleged paradox to see why it should have puzzled the Navy Department...
...Companionate Marriage" will be the subject of a debate between Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the Juvenile Court of Denver, Colorado, and the Reverend H. H. Crane, scheduled for Symphony Hall Tuesday evening...