Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more odorous than these. Michigan fights over skunks. Recently biologists and furriers convinced the state legislature that skunks are valuable integral parts of a community, and as such should expect the protection due to any and all of the state citizens. As a result, it is now against the law in Michigan to molest skunks, even in the way of self protection, during the months from February to November...
...School Prize of $5,000, won by Malcolm D. Almack, Palo Alto high school student. To Hoover Townsboy Almack goes $1,000; to the high school $4,000. The Almack plan dealt chiefly with the necessity for educating the U. S. public to a fuller appreciation of the Prohibition law, its terms, its meaning, its sanctity...
...enrollment. Revealed were such facts as these: the largest divinity school (298 students) in the U. S. is in Chicago; Hunter College (Manhattan) is the largest women's college (4,918 students); the largest liberal arts college is the University of California (9,783 students); the largest law school is at New York University (1,785 students) ; Pennsylvania has the largest dental school (430 students); University...
...Angeles opened a new university, the Los Angeles University of International Relations. It will give courses teaching "a knowledge of languages, history, political economy, international law, and the cultural achievements of nations, in addition to ability and training in diplomatic procedure and commercial practice." Chancellor: Dr. Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, native of Sandwich, Ill., psychologist...
Also, looking toward the deeper study of diplomacy, Myron Charles Taylor* gave $1,500,000 to his alma mater, the Cornell Law School, to build a Myron Taylor Hall for law students & faculty. Wrote he, in making the gift: "It is well to stress the importance of the study of languages . . . particularly French, which is the diplomatic language of the world, and, if possible, Italian and Spanish. . . . It is to be hoped that ultimately such a centre or college of law will be developed and will embody within its courses in international law one of diplomacy, that it may permit...