Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...I.C.C., which sits behind a long desk much like the Supreme Court's to render decisions and build up a body of law almost as fundamental as Supreme Court precedent, is composed mostly of lawyers who have gained reputations for patience and probity. They are not "distinguished" men, as distinction goes, but they are able and honorable. Commissioner John Jacob Esch of La Crosse, Wis., chairman of the Commission last year, served in the U. S. House of Representatives for 21 years before his work with Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa on the Transportation Act of 1920 brought...
Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist, famed among U. S. mayors, worked his way through the University of Wisconsin, was graduated in 1905, ran a restaurant in Chicago, studied law and Karl Marx at night. Now it is his just boast that few U. S. cities have higher credit than Milwaukee; that no city is so economical. For example, Daniel Webster Hoan reduced garbage collection costs to $2 per annum per family, compared to $20 elsewhere...
...years the right to export capital and invest it abroad has been denied to Frenchmen by the law of April 3, 1918. Evasions, numerous, have always been severely punished when detected. Last week this intolerable, emergency damaging of the flow of capital was ended by plump, jovial President Gaston Doumergue who signed a decree lifting the capital embargo...
Elected. Robert E. Wood, 47, U. S. Army general (resigned), vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., to be president; to succeed the late Charles M. Kittle. General Wood is a brother-in-law of Protestant Episcopal Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island and of Senator Thomas Hardwick of Georgia...
...begin the story, he was the $18-a-week clerk in his brother-in-law's cigar store in Park Row, lower Manhattan, 37 years...