Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew him best. His unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy was recognized by the faculty and students as nothing short of remarkable. . . . Willis advanced by leaps and bounds in college; and while yet in knee pants, so to speak, became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress and so proud of his career were the people, that they put him in the seat occupied by the beloved William McKinley as Governor. The one time he was defeated for office...
...succeed Jesse S. Cottrell of Tennessee as U. S. Minister to Bolivia, the President named David E. Kaufman, native of Carlyle, Pa., graduate of Dickinson College law school, Philadelphia practitioner...
Thus by insistence upon the letter of the law, in obedience to Minister of Justice Barthou, the Versailles court made a glaring example of the case of a U. S. citizen of first prominence. In Manhattan his wife, the onetime Miss Nathalie Sedgwick remarked, "Poor Bainbridge! He never seems to get what he wants!" In more decorous mood, Mrs. Colby has said that Mr. Colby is "far too colossal a figure" to have been encompassed by any of her novels...
...most important and rational pronouncements ever made by Signor Mussolini was delivered by him, last week, to the Chamber of Deputies, in presenting the new electoral law (TIME, March...
Ritchie does not think it wise. "We have drifted too far down the stream of Federal centralization," he believes. Washington has become the home of a bureaucratic system, "remote from the people with burdensome, perplexing laws, lacking popular sanction, red tape and the general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles...