Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commission representing the World Court Powers and authorized by the Assembly of the League formally assented to the so-called "Root Formula" under which the U. S. is expected to adhere to the Court at long last (see p. 12). President Hoover sent famed Jurist Root unofficially to Geneva last spring, and he remained there three weeks (TIME, March 18, et seq.), dickering with League and Court statesmen over mutually satisfactory terms of U. S. adherence. As finally drafted and approved the "Root Formula" will permit the U. S. to become one of the Court Powers under an elaborate reservation...
What recalled the cellar-kegs of the country was the news that Franklin Chase Hoyt, a Manhattan jurist, had won Publisher William Randolph Hearst's prize of $25,000 for a plan to modify Prohibition. The essence of Winner Hoyt's plan was to leave the 18th Amendment alone and simply to rephrase the Volstead Act so that it would prohibit distilled alcoholic liquors-created by acts of man-and permit beverages rendered alcoholic by fermentation, which, explained the Hoyt Plan...
Married. Anne F. Moore of Manhattan, daughter of famed International Jurist John Bassett Moore; and Karl Frederick, Manhattan lawyer; in Manhattan...
...fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations as Italian Foreign Minister (1919-20) ; today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations...
...banking of assets is another method whereby U. S. judges may profit in bankruptcy cases. Deposits can be made in a bank in which the jurist has a private stock holding. He collects the interest rather than the creditors...