Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burke was going, he said, back to Pittsburgh to resume his long-neglected law practice. Added he with understandable pride: "I have been virtually officiating as chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Gustav Aaron Youngquist was born in Sweden* in 1885. Aged 2 he was brought to the U. S. by his parents. He studied in St. Paul, worked as a farmhand. By stenography he kept himself in St. Paul Law School until he was graduated in 1909. His first six months practice at Thief River Falls netted him only $110. He moved on and in 1914 grew a mustache to enter politics in Polk County. Married, four times a father, he served a fortnight as a captain in the Army Air Service during the War. He was appointed Minnesota...
...White House proddings. District of Columbia officials last week strove manfully to make the capital the model dry city of the land. A month had passed since Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska had gladdened President Hoover by "raising the question" of the President's direct responsibility for law enforcement in the District of Columbia, where he is the chief municipal official (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week's developments in Washington's dry war included...
George David Birkhoff '05, professor of Mathematics, will represent Harvard at the inauguration of R. M. Hutchins, former dean of the Yale Law School, as president of the University of Chicago on Tuesday, November 19. The event is expected to mark one of the greatest gatherings of learned men in the history of the United States. One hundred college presidents have accepted personal invitations, and including the blanket invitation issued to the student body, the total number invited will reach the 23,000 mark...
...have been interested in the hidden cache, but the college has decided that all shall share a similar fate. Just at the time when the rugs have been laid on the floor and the furniture has begun to assume a natural air--then does the iron hand of the law drive the exiles out into the world to seek a new lodging. While the affair makes admirable copy for metropolitan newspapers and will amuse countless burghers in numerous cities, the students involved must have sentiments much akin to those of the banished Huguenots and the Moors of Spain...