Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England and American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford was recovering from an appendectomy. But beaming upon the beginning of a new chapter in the history of their somewhat eccentric institution were Trustees Gano Dunn, a prosperous engineer, Elihu Root Jr. and Barklie Henry, a son-in-law of the late Socialite Harry Payne Whitney...
...alleged that: 1) Ghost Kenny got together with William A. Kaufmann, Author Herr's law partner and holder of 20% of the stock of Legal Publications, Inc.; 2) controlling a combined 60% of the stock, Kenny and Kaufmann thereupon voted themselves $400 a week salaries out of proceeds from selling the book; 3) Kenny, who had been hired principally to do laborious legal research, rewrote the preface to give himself credit for his work, an unheard of action for a ghost...
...remembered as Black Thursday. That was the day the Molly Maguires-ten of them-were hanged. Far from sissies, the Molly Maguires were a gang of Irish plug-uglies who for two decades had terrorized miners' families, taken pot shots at bosses, and made things generally hot for law-abiding mine folks. "Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman's rope, all the soberer citizens of Pennsylvania's mining towns...
...person good bowel function may mean one movement every day. In another ... it may mean one movement every three or four days. . . . The dictum that a bowel movement every day is necessary for good health is absolutely false. Every person's bowel has its own individual law of frequency of movement. . . . Constipation exists [only] if defecation is difficult or painful, or if there is a sense of incompleteness of evacuation...
...four best student law "teams" at the Law School will meet in the semifinal arguments of the Ames Competition this Wednesday and Thursday. The arguments, held before outstanding eastern state and federal judges, will be at 8 o'clock in the Langdell Hall Court Room...