Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Vice President of Argentina must be Roman Catholics and must have been born in Argentina. Similarly the King of England must be a Protestant. But there is no law to prevent the President of the U. S. from being a Mohammedan...
...President Coolidge appointed an emergency board-as provided for in the Watson-Parker (1926) railway labor law-to investigate the longstanding wage dispute between 47 western railroads and 70,000 railroad employes. The appointees: Lawyer James R. Garfield (Cleveland), Chief Justice Walter P. Stacey of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Professor Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lawyer Chester H. Rowell of Berkeley, Calif., George T. Baker of Davenport, Iowa. Under the law, each investigator receives $100 per day plus expenses. The board must report to the President within 30 days...
...footballer became a law student and, at $6 per week, court reporter for his half-brother's (Charles Phelps Taft's*) newspaper, the Cincinnati Times. Another publisher paid $25 per week to alienate his services. He shared first honors in his class at law school, practiced with his father and got on quickly-assistant prosecuting attorney, judge of the Superior Court. He was only 33 when President Harrison made him Solicitor-General...
...recent organization meeting of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, at which Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School spoke on "Legal Aid and the Lawyer", the officers and members of the bureau were announced for the coming year...
...present a member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor, Field, and Hoar of Boston, and was formerly a member of the firm of Hale and Grinnell. While he was at Harvard he made an excellent scholastic record, graduating from the College in 1912 cum laude, and from the Law School in 1914 cum laude, close to the top of his class. While in the Law School he was editor of the Law Review for two years...