Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bankers and lawyers are necessary to such a reorganization "but they ought not to dominate its preparation." (The I. C. C. stipulated that no underwriting or attorney fees should be paid for the financial reorganization without court approval. But the Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and The National City Co. long ago had voluntarily made that provision...
...vote of the I. C. C. on the St. Paul's conversion was 7 to 4. What the vote constituted was approval of a court order made last spring permitting the St. Paul's receivers to put the railroad up at auction and ceremoniously sell it to a new corporation called the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R., through Lawyer Swaine. Before the new company could operate, the I.C.C. would still have to approve its choice of directors...
...judges who were chosen to try the case were the Honorable C. W. Pound of the New York Court of Appeals, who acted as Chief Justice, the Honorable D. E. Campbell of the Supreme Court of South Dakota, and W. J. McCoy '82, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...case was the final hearing and determination upon the writ of habeas corpus. The keeper of the jail of Amesburgh is ordered to have before the court the body of John B. Nemo, who has been detained and confined in the common jail of the city of Amesburgh by virtue of an order of deportation and commitment pending arrangements for deportation made by Vincent Cummings Esq., Commissioner of Immigration...
...interesting to learn that the case of John B. Nemo, an Italian, the legality of whose projected deportation was argued last night in the final round of the Ames Competition is no theoretical dilemma, propounded by professors, but a case now before the Supreme Court of the United States for review, in the original, Mr. Nemo is a Chinese named Bee who registered for the Draft, and was thereupon arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act for being unlawfully in this country. His rights were upheld by three Boston lawyers in the lower courts for years of bitter litigation. So many...