Word: hon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young lawyers was not mentioned for comparison. Nor was the ability of the young lawyers in question evaluated. The embarrassing feature for the Smiths was that of the several judges who made the assignments. two (the Hons. Joseph M. Proskauer and Bernard L. Shientag) were to accompany the Warrior on his campaign and a third, the Hon. Thomas C. T. Grain, was getting himself considered last week (among others) as a candidate to succeed the Warrior as Governor. All this led to a further question of propriety...
Perhaps Governor Zimmerman's endorsement by the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League helped ruin him. Wisconsin is an oldtime Wet. Perhaps the Hon. Zimmerman's former membership in the La Follette contingent helped split Candidate Beck's vote. Perhaps the La Follette grasp on Wisconsin is slipping in the second generation. Or, perhaps Nominee Walter Jodok Kohler is a wealthy manufacturer with a real flair for politics, a convincing program...
Down House, in Kent, where Charles Darwin wrote his Origin of Species, has been acquired as a public memorial. The Hon. John Collier, who painted portraits of Darwin and his publicist Huxley, has made duplicates of the pictures to be hung in Down House...
Engaged. Lieut. Commander John S. G. L. Dundas of H. M. S. Vindictive, son of the late Hon. Cospatrick Thomas Dundas and of Lady Cordeaux; to Miss Ruth Northrop Coleman, daughter of the Postmaster of Minneapolis...
When the great and fake oath was first penned or by whom, nobody can say. It was circulated first in Chester County, Pa., about 1912; it was read into the Congressional Record during a discussion in regard to the seating in Congress of the Hon. Thomas S. Butler, charged with its circulation in an effort to excite religious antipathies. It is doubtful whether Thomas Butler himself wrote the oath. The career of the bogus oath has been obscure; five years ago it was considered obsolete; recently no less than a million copies have been handed about. The Knights of Columbus...