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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Learned Lawyer Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard's law school, pounded the administration heavily last week in a speech in Manhattan on its selection of Lawyers Roberts and Pomerene to conduct some of the cases against Fall and Sinclair. The Pound point was that while the Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene are able enough as chancery lawyers and did well in the civil suits against Sinclair, they are no great shakes as criminal lawyers. From the criminal charges against them Sinclair and Fall have after long delays and many a slip comfortably escaped so far. Said Dean Pound: "Did Sinclair...
Michigan's chief prohibiter, the Rev. R. N. Holsaple, wrote Mr. Raskob a letter. Did Mr. Raskob mean that he & friends would now comply with the spirit-of-the-law and abstain from liquor...
Although the I. I. of E. C. will operate on funds supplied by the Italian Exchequer, it is under the political aegis of the League of Nations. Also established in Italy this year, under the same potent patronage and auspices is The International Institute of Private Law...
Smugly confident, General Hertzog hinted that he might ask the King-Emperor's brother-in-law to dissolve the Dominion Parliament and call a general election as early as next January, perhaps even before Christmas...
Deputies and Senators of the Chilean Congress were circularized, last week, by the American Smelting and Refining Co. The circulars declared that only the most deplorable results can be expected if the Chilean Government takes action under the law empowering them to impose a tax similar in effect to a "protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests...