Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Law School--Gannett House...
President Mary Emma Wooley of Mount Holyoke College.* Reasons: Law enforcement, international issues, agrarian relief...
...storm of censure had arisen on both sides of the party lines. The Republican New York Evening Post had said: "When she is permitted to make a stump speech . . . she strikes deeply at respect for impartiality of law." Methodists in other States had flayed their Ohio brethren for being swept off their feet...
...more Whisper arose to offend the Warrior. Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. is an up-and-coming young lawyer in Manhattan. The local Institute for Public Service last week popped out with the report that Lawyer "Al Jr." had received 38 "professional opportunities," i.e., assigned law cases, from Tammany judges whose duty it was to appoint a defender, receiver or referee. The Smith son-in-law, Lawyer Francis J. Quillinan (lately married to the Warrior's daughter Catherine) was shown to have received 22 cases. The unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young...
...more than 300.000 people of this island, to estimate conservatively, have had little or nothing to eat and they will have nothing to eat for at least another week unless immediate and drastic action is taken. . . . Disease and famine are already here." They urged four relief measures: 1) martial law; 2) requisition of all food supplies and materials; 3) coastwise relief for other parts of the island via boats; 4) the drafting of all available manpower for public service. Again Governor Towner cabled. He beseeched all available aid from the Red Cross and other sources. The estimated property damage...