Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registered for the Draft, and was thereupon arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act for being unlawfully in this country. His rights were upheld by three Boston lawyers in the lower courts for years of bitter litigation. So many legal difficulties developed that the case has become seriously considered by jurists as come seriously considered by jurist as a test of the rights of American citizens. Particularly of Orientals, whose entrance into this country has been illegal; and the review before the Supreme Court of the country will hardly attract more attention than the findings of the acting justices, eminent judges...
Last week in the august precincts of the Metropolitan Club, Manhattan, distinguished laymen gathered with Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes. The laymen included James J. Phelan, Boston banker; Morgan Joseph O'Brien, Manhattan jurist; Patrick Edward Crowley, President of N. Y. Central R. R., James Augustine Farrell, President of U. S. Steel, and many another almost as potent. With solemnity Cardinal Hayes was inducted as the head of a new chapter in the order, to be known as the Knights of Malta in the United States, the first chapter in the Western Hemisphere. His Eminence was also notified that...
While the trial for criminal conspiracy of Albert Bacon Fall and Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Oct. 31) moved through its second week in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the presiding jurist, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, became more & more an object of public interest. Justice Siddons is a great-grandson of the late Actress Sarah Kemble Siddons. Concerning himself he says: "In my youth I thought my choice of a life's work would be either journalism or the stage. But fate decreed that I should become a lawyer. Otherwise-well, who can say what might have...
Muttering hoarsely, the gun-woman scurried around the bench and let four more shots fly at the terrified old jurist. A bullet in the right hip knocked him down a second time. A bullet in the left thigh knocked him down a third time. A bullet grazed his knee just before bailiffs over-powered his would-be murderess...
Married. Onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Henry S. Breckenridge, Princeton '07; to Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, onetime wife of a nephew of potent Republican jurist Elihu Root; in Washington...