Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brightest gem in his State's judicial crown, Judge Cardozo, a thin-nosed patrician descendant of Sephardic Jews, may be expected to bolster up the Court's fine Liberal-Conservative balance, which was jeopardized by Liberal Justice Holmes's retirement...
...Desired "to acknowledge with pro found thanks the reception which has been accorded to me by this country. I accept it as proof of their loyalty and devotion to the Crown." ¶ Announced negotiations had been be gun with the U. S. for completion of the St. Lawrence waterway. ¶ Determined "to maintain a policy of rigid economy, consistent with the dis charge of those . . . obligations, which is essential to preservation of the integrity and credit of the Dominion." ¶ soundness" Rejoiced of over Canada's the finances. "fundamental...
...Royal Order of the Redeemer, ist Class (Greece), 1918; Grand Cross Order of St. Sava, ist Class (Jugoslavia), 1919: Grand Cordon Order of Leopold (Bel-gium), 1921; Grand Officer Order of Polonia Restituta. 1923; Commander of Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy), 1924; Grand Cross Order of the Crown of Roumania, 1927: Order of the White Lion, ist Class (Czechoslovakia), 1027. loudly Dr. Butler trumpets for Peace, the Republican Party and Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Famed is his work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which he reputedly persuaded the old steelmaster to establish. International amity...
Judges of England's High Court last week prepared to fight the 20%, reduction of their salaries under the "economy act" of 1931. Reason: they are not (they claim) "servants of the Crown," for whom the cuts were ordered, but dignitaries who may be removed only by majority vote of both houses of Parliament and with the approval of the King. One procedure open to them is a petition of right, in which case they would hear their own suit against the Government. Since English judges are well paid (the Lord Chief Justice receives ?8,000 per year...
...Cambridge a grocer's assistant named John Dover Place sued Dr. Charles Frederick Searle, charging the doctor had enticed his wife Gwendoline from his home. Evidence showed Grocer's Assistant Place spent four nights a week at the Rose & Crown public house. Wig askew, Sir Henry Alfred McCardie, England's handsome, black-eyed bachelor judge, said...