Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a Senate bill liberalizing the judicial retirement law whereby Chief Justice Taft becomes immediately eligible to retire...
...electrical engineer. Fishing in the Mississippi, he carried screws, coils, wire and switches in his jeans as well as worms and tackle. His father was by way of becoming a distinguished justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court when the callow son said he had no use for law because he "never knew a lawyer who amounted to very much." He played the mandolin and mumble-dy-peg, went to Lawrenceville. played lacrosse, went to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale...
Within two years there the charms of electricity faded. He returned to Minnesota to enter the State University, to become a lawyer. His practice began and continued with "the greatest law firm between Chicago and the Pacific coast," later known as Mitchell, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler. Pierce Butler was long senior partner before his advancement to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Brown, whose father was once Toledo postmaster, put aside a newspaper career to become a lawyer. The law led to politics. Mr. Brown climbed from ward captain to county boss. In 1912 he went a-maying with the Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...
President of his class, Mr. Adams was graduated from Harvard in 1888, spent the customary year traveling over Europe, returned for a course at the Harvard Law School. He became in 1898 Treasurer of Harvard when it had only $12,000,000. His wise management has raised this to $100,000,000. Twice he was elected mayor of Quincy on a Democratic ticket. And all the while his corporate interests spread out and out until, last week, his resignations as a director or trustee went to 55 concerns including the A. T. & T., American Sugar Refining, Boston and Albany...