Word: laws
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Albert C. Ritchie was graduated from Johns Hopkins University at twenty, and from the law school of Maryland at twenty-two. Leaving law school in 1898 he practiced with a Baltimore firm. Through city solicitor and people's counsel and State Attorney-General the road led to the Governorship. He was elected first in 1920, and has been reelected twice. He has given the State an economical, business-like administration...
...matter of fact a great deal was accomplished concerning several pressing matters of this hemisphere. Some progress was made in the codification of international law, both regarding public and private relations. The Pan-American Union was for the first time put on a treaty basis, and its functions enlarged and defined. An important aviation treaty was also drawn up. The principle of the compulsory arbitration of all disputes susceptible of judicial settlement was adopted, and provision made for a conference in the near future to draw up appropriate treaties...
...expenditure of public money. He is chairman of the committee on the Senate's rules. Three years ago his party honored him by electing him to succeed the vastly different Henry Cabot Lodge as Republican leader in the Senate. Yet in all this time there has been no important law enacted which bears his name. There has been no great adventure in which he suddenly flashed before the public. He has advanced to power and responsibility through the successful repetition of an orthodox routine. And between the colorful career of ol' Cap Curtis boy and the conventional existence of Charles...
...jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
...law that first provided for school courses in prohibition seems to have lain dormant in recent years. Perhaps when the nation took up the subject it was thought unnecessary to continue the study in schools. At all events, if it is true, as reported, that unofficial dry agents moved for its continuance, their pessimism must rival that of the man who were both suspenders and belt...