Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state that Mr. Robert E. Wood, recently elected President of Sears, Roebuck & Co. is a brother-in-law of Senator Thomas Hardwick of Georgia (TIME, Jan. 23). This is not correct for Senator Hardwick is a very distant cousin of Mr. Wood's wife...
...Lowden. In Illinois, the State Supreme Court declared constitutional a law substituting a primary election for the caucus system of nominating candidates for state offices, including delegates to President-nominating conventions. Underlings of Frank Orren Lowden hastened to enter his name as a primary candidate, rejoicing that he now had a chance to get nominating votes in his home State, where, while the caucus system prevailed, he was at the mercy of the State Bosses, Mayor Thompson of Chicago and Governor Len Small. Lowdenites felt better about the East, too. Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses...
Sanford Bates, Commissioner of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, began the discussion taking up the general subject from the legal point of view. Momentarily pausing to comment on the glories of the Boy Scout movement, he passed to the subject for discussion. He spoke of the law, as practiced in former years, as revolving wholly upon the question of responsibility, this theory being based upon the belief that man's will is supreme...
...said Mr. Bates, "Criminal law has recently been shelving off into other sciences, sociology, anthropology, and psychology...
Josiah Marvel of the Wilmington, Delaware, Bar, chairman of the General Council of the American Bar Association and Ex-President of that organization, will speak in Langdell Center under the auspices of the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association on February 15 at 8 o'clock...