Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want Life Subscriptions?'' I do, one for me 49 years old, one for my sister Mrs. Ben R. Meyer who is 50 years old, and one for my son-in-law who is 26 years old, all subscribers. My son-in-law's name is Herman F. Hahn...
Legislative hobbles: A "Jim-Crow" law for the District of Columbia; U. S. Prohibition for foreign embassies in Washington. He lives at the Washington Hotel, keeps no motor, rides the street cars. He takes no physical exercise, does not "give a damn" for society, dancing, cards. Chief conversational topics: the glories of the Old South, keeping down the "nigger." He calls spades spades and has referred, on the Senate floor, to water closets, the smell of Negroes, giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever...
...Monday morning the only grades ever made public in the Harvard Law School, the marks for all members of the graduating class, will be posted on the bulletin board in Austin Hall. The names are published in the form of a rank list...
...seems impossible that such cold blooded practices may be allowed for long in any civilised society, but the growing indifference to the rights of individuals at present noticeable in this country appears to admit of anything. The vigor with which the present offenders in the name of law and order are prosecuted may serve as an index to the extent that a respect for an order that is higher than law still remains in the United States...
...Irene Castle Mclaughlin of Chicago, onetime arbiter (dress, dancing, hair, gait), became last week a special police officer-"So I can protect dogs and other dumb animals and see that the law is enforced regarding their treatment...