Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass...
...Arbitration. Later he represented his country in more international controversies than any other living man. As Under Secretary in 1914 he was the real functionary in Washington while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
...Timony, plus their husbands, wives and 14 children of voting age, would all vote for Smith (34 votes). Next day, a Mrs. Martha Griffiths of Williamstown, Pa., aged 87, announced 87 votes for Hoover-her eleven children, 32 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 33 sons, daughters, grandsons-and granddaughters-in-law...
...Henry Waters Taft, sister-in-law of the Chief Justice of the U. S., announced herself a Smith lady, collected campaign money in Manhattan. Some people remarked that on Feb. 7, 1912, Mrs. Taft became a Roman Catholic. Some people remarked that lately Mr. Chief Justice Taft's ten-year-old prognostications about what Prohibition would lead to, were republished (TIME...
...Hoover went out and caught the cat, took it indoors. After breakfast, she accompanied her husband to a polling place, with their sons and daughter-in-law. They returned to a house full of people, sandwiches, chrysanthemums, telegraph tickers and commotion, to wait and hear how many millions of citizens were voting the way the Hoovers had voted. If Mrs. Hoover thought about the black cat during the day, there was another "omen," too. It was not only Mrs. Smith's birthday, but Herbert Hoover...