Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic Monthly for June Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of the Law School follows a familiar trail of thought to the conclusion that the task of judgement "is not to fit the penal treatment to an abstract crime but to a concrete criminal." In his newly published "The Delinquent Boy: A Socio-Psychological Study" Doctor John Slawson says that the first necessity of the juvenile court is "to treat the offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved...
...confuse Commodore P-e-r-r-y with Rear Admiral Robert Edwin P-e-a-r-y (1856-1920), discoverer of the North Pole (1909) and father of the "Snow Baby," Marie Ahnighito ("Peaked Mountain") Peary, once famed as the Farthest-North-born white infant, later the daughter-in-law of Judge Wendell Philips Stafford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
This done, the dark faces began to gleam with excitement. Black Bishops Abraham Lincoln Gaines, William Tecumseh Vernon, J. Albert Johnson and William H. Heard were haled before the Conference, charged with misappropriation of funds or maladministration of the law. Then there came the matter of electing four bishops out of 100 eager candidates. Wild scenes occurred. Presiding Bishop William Sampson, making himself heard above the storm, cried that a motion to adjourn was out of order. Thinking this an unfair move in favor of a rival candidate for a bishopric the Rev. R. L. Pope of Indianapolis climbed...
Chester Welde Cuthell, chairman of the Air Law Committee of the American Bar Association, counsel for several aeronautical firms...
Having learned from his singing father-in-law the politic value of give & take, he last year gave Radio Corporation of America, General Electric and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing important rights in his FBO Pictures Corp. Thereby he gained a valuable tie-up for his cinema studios with radio studios...