Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge accepted last week the resignation of Robert Edwin Olds, 52, as Under Secretary of State, to take effect July 1. Mr. Olds had been a law partner of Secretary of State Kellogg in St. Paul, Minn. He will soon become associated with the international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in Manhattan...
...ostensibly set out to investigate a "wholesale buying" corporation called the Decimo Club, Inc., and had told his State the Decimo Club was perfectly legal after receiving from it covertly a $25,000 fee. Other queer firms that Mr. Reading kept out of the hands of the law paid him $35,000 more...
...Congress may of course protect the secrecy of telephone messages by making them, when intercepted, inadmissible in evidence in Federal criminal trials, by direct legislation, and thus depart from the common law of evidence. But the courts may not adopt such a policy by attributing an enlarged and unusual meaning to the Fourth Amendment...
...existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to proceed. ... I hardly think that the United States would appear to greater advantage when paying for an odious crime against state law than when inciting to the disregard of its own. . . . It is a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part...
...against-hopers Banker Emile Moreau can say only, first that their hopes are too extravagant ever to be realized, and second that the Bank of France has not sufficient resources to go on protecting the franc against foreign speculators, unless there is applied that potent check to speculation, a law establishing the currency on a gold basis...