Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legal Aid Society, run by law students, gives advice on legal matters free of charge. If a case is carried to court, the bureau demands merely that its expenses in conducting the case be paid. All types of cases have been handled, except bankruptcy and admiralty. Cases of contracts, bills, and between landlord and tenant comprise most of the suits. Advice has been sought even on divorce, and once on international affairs...
...Smith is accused of being wet, and he is I'm wet, I couldn't be wetter, yet I enforce the law in Cambridge. The same is true of Smith. He uses all the means at his disposal to enforce a law which should be enforced solely by the Federal authorities. Smith is greatly misunderstood in the South, because of the common belief of his attitude toward wetness. But his record as governor of New York should counteract this. It is an enviable record, in a state which was carried by Harding by 1,000,000 people and by Coolidge...
Last week, citizens respectful of the law paid income tax. The Federal Reserve Banks throughout the obedient land arranged ledgers to dodge the accounting strain. In one day, in Manhattan alone, the District Bank turned over $2,000,000,000 without rippling the glassy calm of the money market. Treasury certificates for $550,000,000 were redeemed; $560,000,000 of fresh Government obligations were sold to the prudent. $450,000,000 income tax was collected, and "easy" money "ruled'' because banks had the use of money represented by income tax checks for several days (before return...
Student Nevin fulfilled Pennsylvania University's law school requirements at 18. For ten dreadful, discouraging years he "practiced," until accident confronted him with John Wanamaker, the Founder.*Lawyer Nevin was better at real estate than the Founder himself; when the owner died, Lawyer Nevin was made Vice President of everything, all around. Directorships followed, automatically. Wilful-faced, 200 pound, 6 ft. 2 in., firm chinned, wideshouldered Attorney Nevin became master last week of Wanamaker's interests in the U. S. and the world, to wit: Wanamaker's stores in Philadelphia, New York, Paris, Tokyo; A. T. Stewart...
AMBITION - Arthur Train - Scribner's ($2.50). Simon Kent gets along in the world. Why? 1) He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an asset to a law firm that handles shady cases for a potent oil corporation; 2) his wife knows how to mix cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells...