Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyers leaped to his defense; America's conscience was not in the least disturbed. The young man was not even given the right to a trial! Within a few hours he was dead- killed by a band of men who felt they had the right to take the law in their own hands...
...Harvard University Press acted immediately on the designation of Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, to occupy a seat on the Supreme-Court by sending his eminently successful book, "Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court," into a fourth large printing...
...however, as one Harvard man to another, the President named Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court of the United States, and this nomination is an example of vision as sound and enlightened as Black's was ill-considered and petty. For most of his twenty-five years at the Law School Frankfurter has symbolized to Boston's State Street interests a dangerous and bombthrowing form of liberalism, a reputation which he gained from his participation in the Tom Mooney commission and the Sacco-Vanzetti trails. In 1932 these interests heaved a sigh of relief when he refused his appointment...
Colwell Charles R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, said that all cases of the fraud were reported by students, for the most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...
...newspaper ventures turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...