Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patently political appointment, but far from scandalous. A product of Louisville, Commissioner Lucas, now 41, was elected city police court prosecutor in 1917, his first public office. Blackhaired, handsome, alert, the young man managed to outshine the higher court officials of the time...
...Confirmed Archibald K. Gardner as Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eighth District...
...Shields, as President of the Trustees, demanded from University President Wayman the expulsion of six members of the faculty. To Fundamentalist Shields these members looked like Modernists. But President Wayman would make no expulsions. Followed the Shields expulsion of the whole faculty, the riot, and then a court order restraining the Shields action and making possible last week resumption of recitations, lectures at the University. It was with these things that the irate Buffalo convention dealt...
...often friended Pennsylvania's U. S. Senator-suspect William Scott Vare, and to Albert M. Greenfield, a realtor recently elected to the Board of Trustees. Realtor Greenfield has been a large contributor to Vare election funds. Trustees of Girard are elected by the Judges of the Common Pleas Court, whom Senator-suspect Vare reputedly controls. If the Judges should have occasion to elect more Vare men to be Girard trustees, what, wondered the alarmed alumni, might happen to the huge Girard endowment...
Which state has prior right to water that rises in one, flows through the other? Can one state prevent another state from depositing its refuse in the sea? To settle these questions. New Jersey last week filed two suits in the Supreme Court...