Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is to be a debate in the Union on Friday; the subject will be: "Resolved, That newspapers should be restrained by law from publishing murder trials and sex cases...
...Born in Pottawatomie County, Iowa, he was a 24-year-old court reporter, married and with no means of support beyond shorthand stenography, when he determined to become a lawyer. His wife and his shorthand were what helped him through the University of Nebraska. Between classes at the Harvard Law School he was secretary to Philosopher William James. Among his classmates was Elihu Root Jr., under whose father's aegis the Manhattan firm of Root, Clarke, Buckner, Howl and Ballantine was set up in 1912, when the partners were only "five years out of school." The 16-year...
...monarchies" have relinquished the once democratic form of their parliaments and reduced to a mockery the prerogatives of their kings. Signer Benito Mussolini, as Dictator of Italy, and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, his prototype in Spain, have now so claw-hooked their authority into the texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef...
...Cable. Meanwhile Chiang Kai-shek was in difficulties at Shanghai, last week, with his sister-in-law, Madame Sun Yat-sen?although she was in Moscow. This dainty but great lady is the widow of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1867-1925), who founded the original "Nationalist Government...
...jurors were so touched by Defendant Remus's description of how he spent last Christmas in prison that they petitioned to have him set free at once without waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition...