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Chief Justice William Howard Taft, according to custom, took no part in a case before the U. S. Supreme Court, last week, in which his niece-in-law, Elizabeth C. Taft of Detroit, lost an appeal to escape a $2,040 tax on her 1923 income...
...condition of international law is far from satisfactory at the present," Mr. Wickersham continued. "Problems of a most embarrassing nature are constantly arising, and sometimes constitute serious menaces to the legal harmony of government. Hitherto there has been no single system of law whereby countries can judge their cases. Custom and a wide variety of precedents have been practically the only criteria for the just determination of conduct. Obviously conflict was the inevitable result of such contradictory standards...
...Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes. By custom the Vice President's wife presides. But Vice President-Elect Curtis is a widower. His sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, is to serve as his official hostess. Should that make her a Senate Lady? Should that make her president of the club...
...Since it is a girl," he said resignedly, "the child must be named on the 13th day, according to Hindu custom." Later, however, he advanced the date one day, explaining, "I have discovered that the Maharani has a peculiar American aversion to the number...
Nineteen cities besides Chicago will hear the Chicago Civic Opera Company this year.* That will mean 59 performances on a tour of 8,977 miles and, according to custom, last week Boston was first. Lohengrin was the opening opera there, with Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan, as the wispy Elsa who could not cure her curiosity, Rene Maison the Silver Knight and Maria Olszewska the black-hearted Ortrud. Other operas came from a standardized repertoire, all save Honegger's Judith which retells starkly in music and text the apochryphal legend of the Hebrew prophetess saving her people against...