Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand . . . that the Governor [Alfred E. Smith] in casting those votes against those reform bills [touching gambling and the facilities for prostitution] might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional or were not enforceable or infringed on personal liberty or encouraged police blackmail...
...never mean to hit below the belt, but I felt that roll-call on prostitution was a bit below. ... So, in all conscience . . . I withdrew...
Many a Papist sincerely believes that the Dictator has not changed his spots, and considers him to be a purely secular Despot who tolerates and uses the Church for his own ends. Recently when Signor Mussolini felt himself strong enough to suppress all Italian Papist youth organizations, such as the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts, he did so (TIME, April 9). On the other hand Il Duce extends to Il Papa every formal consideration, professes a strong desire to negotiate a Concordat with the Holy See, and retains in his Cabinet as Minister of Colonies famed Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican...
Thirty-three years ago he quit Elmira and advanced confidently upon Manhattan, to the offices of a Frank Richardson, then acting as the New York representative of many a country newspaper. Young Block became adept in garnering rich advertising contracts. By 1898 he felt able to start out in business for himself. Ten years later, he bought the Newark Star-Eagle at a receiver's sale for $235,000. It required all his savings in cash, some...
...banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect of criminal practice and the insurgence of Crime itself. Retiring as president of the American Bar Association at last...