Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president, Nicholas Murray Butler. Increases in faculty salaries, accomplishments of faculty members, gifts to the University-these and similar academic matters were included in Dr. Butler's report. More important to Dr. Butler, who is as much the publicist as the pedagog, was a disquisition on the Law, particularly the Law in its lack of majesty...
...That part of the social fabric which is called the law," said he. "needs overhauling. ... It may well be that we shall discover among the mass of statutes, judicial decisions and administrative rulings which now confront us, some that are law, some that are partly law, some that are no law, and some that are antilaw. . . . When conduct and the law are at odds, the fault may lie with the law...
Arguing particularly against the theory that the law is sacred as such. Dr. Butler declared: "Laws are not made by Legislatures or by courts except in form, save insofar as the general will accepts them. No law which has to do with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law...
Connecticut. Re-elected Governor John Trumbull, Republican, of Connecticut, will soon be father-in-law of John Coolidge. He is one of the flying Governors (see Iowa, Wisconsin...
...Little Mahatma. As leader of the Swarajist Party in the Legislative Assembly at Delhi, the Pandit is an intensely active and practicing politician. His official status with the British Raj is second only to his unofficial might as President of the Hindu Congress. Grave and deeply read in law, the Pandit is also a mob-kindling orator, and moreover a zealot who gave up his lucrative legal practice in 1920, when Pied-Piper Gandhi piped "Non-Co-operation...