Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal Judge William Hawley Atwell of Dallas, a big blonde blue-eyed Texan, is a stern and conscientious jurist. For two months he has served on the bench of the Federal Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., during the absence of a resident judge. He took with him a righteous whip which he had learned to crack below the Mason-Dixon line. He flayed what he conceived to be the lax, despicable mores of New York law courts...
Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio...
...confused with Charles Hillyer Brand, able jurist, banker, philanthropist and U. S. Representative from Athens, Ga., nor with Charles John Brand, able botanist, economist and marketing expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...William Blackstone, 18th Century English jurist, called it: "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world...
Distinguished Colombian jurist and delegate Jesus M. Yepes announced, last week, that his delegation would lay before the Conference a draft treaty creating and giving "compulsory jurisdiction" to a Pan-American International Court of Justice...