Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday Sir Andrew Bonar Law announced in Parliament the results of the U-boats' first year of unrestricted warfare as they compared with the amount of tonnage built during the year. Great Britain and America together had launched only a little over two million tons, whereas it is estimated that the U-boats have sunk some six million tons of Allied shipping...
...subject will never be given full justice until the inequality of our present Sunday laws has been reformed wherever inequality exists. As matters stand now, all those who can naturally afford to secure recreation on Sundays by motor trips, at country clubs and on private grounds are easily able to do so, but the less favored half of the community, including small boys, are held as offenders against the law if they play baseball even out of church hours. It is not a question of legalizing professional baseball on Sunday, but of giving all the people an equal chance...
...revelation of German diplomatic communications. Mr. Beck is one of the most prominent leaders of the American Bar and probably has argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other contemporary attorney. He is an orator of international fame, an authority on trust cases and international law and is known almost as well in England as in New York and Washington. Under the Roosevelt administration Mr. Beck occupied the position of Attorney General, and to him was largely due the Northern Securities decision by the Supreme Court. He has also been identified with the New York...
...memory of the graduate of that name of the Class of 1897. For the duration of the war the income is to be applied for such war measures as the University may desire. After the war the income is to be used to support a scholarship in Railroad Law...
Robert Darrah Jenks died on January 22, 1917, in Philadelphia, Pa. He prepared for College at the Penn Charter School, graduated from the University in the Class of 1897 and after a year of railroading took up the study of law. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and was a practising lawyer thereafter, devoting much of his time to public causes. For many years a trustee of the Penn School in South Carolina, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Seventy, secretary of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association...