Word: courts
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...Elder will give a description of the present permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and a history of the Fisheries Question since its beginning, concluding with an outline of the decisions on the various counts that the Court made last summer...
Registration of voters for the Boston municipal election on January 10 closes Wednesday at 10 o'clock. All men who wish to vote and are entitled to do so must have their names put on the voters' list by that time. They may register either at the Old Court House during the day or in the local ward rooms in the evening between 6 and 10 o'clock...
...furthering the cause of peace. But those engaged in them have never begun to do such practical work for peace as have the men who in actual practice succeeded in reducing certain of these theories to action. For instance, it was a fine thing to establish The Hague court; but, having been established, the court was never used, for it was found to be infinitely easier to pass lofty resolutions as to its existence than actually to get any power, any nation, under any circumstances, to try to take advantage of it. The court would, in actual fact, never have...
...return for a moment to the Hague court, one of the most important instances of the triumph of Mr. Taft's administration over those obstacles is that supplied by the work of The Hague tribunal having brought before it the fisheries question between the United States and Great Britain. Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of War and of State, and now United States Senator from New York, has rendered many and great services to his country; and among these great services is that which he rendered last summer when in charge of the American case at The Hague. Nor was this...
...ministers to Great Britain, three members of the Cabinet, three for- eign ministers, one members of the Continental Congress and also of the Constitutional Convention, one Governor of Massachusetts, two Presidents and one Acting President of Harvard, three presidents of other colleges, six judges of the United States Courts and of State Supreme Courts, one United States Supreme Court Justice; and, if one is to believe the current gossip, another is soon to sit on that bench. The first scholars of late years have been for the most part either educators of high rank or lawyers whose practice brought them...