Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right to refuse to incurables the pity which they demand? Has not the individual the right to his liberty? So long as the law is not amended the law throws onto individuals the responsibility of the solution of the problem...
...Last week he was in the hospital at Hyeres, reluctantly alive and detachedly wondering what state and social judgment would be on his matricide. He wrote a long letter to Le Matin, outstanding Paris daily, explaining his deed, admitting his "guilt," urging that, come what might to him, the law be changed. "I regret nothing," he said...
Fred B. Smith of White Plains. N. Y.. layman, chairman of the National Citizens' Committee of 1,000 for Law Enforcement, leader in lay religious organizations both national and international, was unanimously elected Moderator by the Congregationalists. Some time ago Moderator Smith retired from gainful occupation with Johns-Manville Corp., famed asbestos makers, to combat Hell's fire through church work...
Died. Dr. Edward Mansfield McGuffey, 74, of Elmhurst, N. Y., rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, authority on canon law, son of the late Alexander McGuffey (coauthor of famed McGuffey Readers); in Elmhurst...
...Being an Ambassador," said the U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, in Washington last week, "is a snap compared to being the father-in-law of the world's best known bridegroom...