Word: laws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...months in jail, although it was stated that he was identified by three women, presumably victims of his attacks. There was absolutely lacking any proof of these twenty-eight alleged attacks--the facts are merely alleged, and no alleged fact without supporting evidence can or does stand before the law. If it was impossible to secure evidence or apprehend the offender it is a reflection on the Omaha officials, and they should be replaced; but this I can scarcely believe. The alternative is that no such attacks occurred, and they have been merely alleged. At all events, it still rests...
Third, admitting that William Brown, the negro lynched, was guilty, and even deserved the death penalty the citizens of Omaha have presumably elected city, officials whose business it is to administer justice. The moment that a single citizen "took the matter into his own hands" he transgressed the law of the state and of the nation, and, in killing Brown committed murder. Furthermore, he introduced into Omaha the principle of anarchy. The individual became superior to the government and to the law. If we want mob law in our country, why not go about it in an orderly fashion...
...high living cost? Wage earners are blaming the employers and capitalists, and the employers and capitalists are blaming the wage earners. Each accuses the other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
Information has been received from Washington that the Government War Risk Insurance may now be converted into permanent policies. According to the law this conversio0n must take place within five years after the declaration of peace. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance advises men who own a War risk policy to convert it to a permanent policy as soon as possible. Six forms of permanent policy are now offered by the government. They are; (1) ordinary life, (2) twenty-payment life, (3) thirty-payment life, (4) twenty-year endowment, (5) thirty-year endowment, (6) endowment maturing...
Action is being taken at the Law School to recognize the club which were suspended in 1918 on account of the war. A member of the Board of Advisers will be at the office of the board (between Landell Centre and Langdell North) to consult with men who desire information concerning these clubs daily between 3 and 4 o'clock...