Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State. When the Radicals held a political demonstration last November in front of the State House, within which was Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Harry Canter participated by marching around carrying a placard which said: "FULLER-MURDERER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI." Harry Canter was arrested. To the policemen he said: "Law isn't made for the workingman...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Law School Association will be held at Langdell Hall on Wednesday, June 19, at 11.30 o'clock. At this time the election of officers will take place and such other business transacted as may properly come before the meeting...
...eleven eminent citizens whom President Hoover has constituted a commission to inquire into the law-breaking habits of their fellows, and into the nature of the laws which they break, and into the causes and circumstances of the breakage, headed last week for Washington to receive their instructions. George Woodward Wickersham, chairman, supped and slept at the White House, planning in advance with the President...
...inaugural-time, President Hoover had expanded the commission-in-investigation idea far beyond the limits of Prohibition. He proposed then to go into the "entire question of law enforcement and organized justice." He tried to subordinate Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to be scrutinized. To the agenda were added such matters as immigration violations, the jury system, anti-trust statutes, court procedure, narcotics, general disrespect for Law. In the President's re-explanations of the investigation, Prohibition dwindled almost out of sight...
Author Redlich, Moravian born, practiced law in Vienna, sat for twelve years in Austria's Parliament, and was appointed in 1918 Minister of Finance for old Austria. At present professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard Law School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...