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United States Senator William Cabell Bruce, in a letter to The New York Times, writes, on the subject of the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court: "Two Catholics have filled that exalted position; one, Roger B. Taney, the greatest jurist who ever filled it except John Marshall, and the other, Edward D. White...
Died. Dr. Hugo Preuss, 65, chief author of the German Republican Constitution,* noted post-War German statesman, scholar, professor, jurist, sometime member of both the Prussian Diet and the Imperial Parliament, German Secretary of the Interior in 1918, and noted Jewish intellectual; at Berlin, mourned by almost the entire German press, with the exception of the extreme Monarchist sheetlets...
...Cleveland, 200 ambitious, attentive young men, about to be sworn in as attorneys, listened to the words of a grim jurist in a shovel-tail coat-a gentleman whose pointed head, lean yellow face and sardonic lip bristle gave him a Mephistophelian air, but whose words were admonitory, noble, penetrating. He-Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall of the Ohio Supreme court-was flaying the professional ethics of Clarence D arrow, famed champion of Leopold, Loeb and the Ape. Said he, referring to the Scopes trial (TIME, July...
...along the Mall, through the Admiralty Arch and down Whitehall. Thither went M. Briand; there was he joined by le comte de Fleurian, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, by M. Philippe Berthelot of the Quai d'Orsay, and by M. Fromageot, French international jurist. Then began conversations between the French Foreign Minister and the British Foreign Secretary to decide upon an answer to Germany's recent note relative to the proposed Rhine Treaty which is to guarantee the status quo on the frontier between France and Germany (TIME, June 22). For this...
Died. George Gray, 85, famed Delaware jurist, last survivor of the Peace Commission which framed the Treaty of Paris in 1898, a member of the bench of the Permanent Tribunal of International Arbitration at the Hague, one-time (1885-99) U. S. Senator from Delaware, senior Democratic member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate at the time of the Spanish-American War, onetime (1899-1914) U. S. Circuit Judge; in Wilmington, after a lingering illness...