Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colleges, F. E. Cummings '30, David Guarnaccia '29, V. L. Hennessy '30, R. P. Porter '29, and C. A. Pratt '28, are expected to be the only undergraduate trackmen from Harvard. A. H. Miller '27, former football and track luminary in the University, and now a student in the Law School, will also don togs with the Boston runners...
...Literally, the Court of King's Conscience dating from the early eighteenth century. Chancery had jurisdiction when there were no forms of action by which relief could be obtained at law, in respect of rights which ought to be enforced. Said King James, speaking in the Star Chamber: "Where the rigour of the law in many cases will undo a subject, then the chancery tempers the law with equity, and so mixes mercy with justice, as it preserves a man from destruction...
...said: "It will be my purpose and the function of the institute to provide for intelligent individual business management, operating independently, an opportunity to do business at a fair profit and on a basis of wholesome competition, and to see that the industry conducts itself entirely within the law, eliminates unfair trade practices and provides a maximum of service both to the industry and to the public...
...This means that we are sunk to the savagery of the jungle. Out of this is emerging-has already emerged-a new law so hideous in its potentialities as to make one shudder at the possible consequences." So cried Secretary G. L. Hostetter of the Chicago Employers' Association last week, when he learned that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone had formed a cleaning and dyeing business. Mr. Capone, quixotically, and so incomprehensibly to many competitors, has been trying to consolidate the earnings of his haphazard youth and establish an estate. Mr. Hostetter, however, considers him only a common assassin...
Jeritza said she had gone to Paris against her will, at the pleading of: 1) the director of the Vienna Opera Company; 2) her mother-in-law, Baroness von Popper of Paris; 3) the Austrian Government. But when she reached Paris no Austrian delegation met her train; no critics were invited to her performances; her operatic stature was in no way suitably emphasized. Jeritza refused the little medal she had been offered. She said...